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On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 10:58:31 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:

(snip)

> And when that happens (and it does sometimes happen), that issuer has just 
> committed suicide if it can be shown to be incompetence on the part of the 
> issuer. CAs have been dropped in the past from the major web browsers 
> because of this, but I can't remember the details. 

> (Other possibilities include a nation-state attack with a vector the issuer 
> could not reasonably have been aware of).

This often enough happens when there isn't much trust needed.

If I want to download some documentation, so that no personal
information is needed, why the security?

OK, I suppose someone could write fake documentation for
some product, and then fake the web site to convince me
to download it.   

Also, there are some that require an account when there is
nothing that would need one.  Again, downloading material
that is not special in any way.