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b'- Follow up on Encryption episode (Google blocking Symantec certs)\\n\\t\\u25cb Sep 2015 incident (Thawte issuing a goolge.com cert without authorization. Attributed to employee error and resolved by termination\\n\\t\\t\\xa7 Oct 2015 Symantec disclosed 23 test certs issued without owners knowledge, more certs uncovered by Certificate Transparency logs, symantec extended the audit and found additional 164 certs, and 2458 certs issued for domains never registered https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-certificate-security.html\\n\\t\\t\\xa7 Jan 19 2017, Mozilla reported more misuse https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/fyJ3EK2YOP8/yvjS5leYCAAJ\\n\\t\\t\\xa7 Mar 23, 2017, google posts a report of 30,000 bad certs from symantec, proposing a gradual plan to distrust symantec till actions taken to ensure trust https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs%5B1-25%5D\\nExtended validation vs. Domain validation certs (mostly technically identical -EV may use stronger enc- but different registration process with different UX presented by browsers -green bar-)\\n\\u2022 How the Television age reflected a scarcity of communication channels.\\n\\t\\u2022 How the Internet created an abundance of communication channels.\\n\\t\\u2022 Creators and audience choose platforms based on cost, ease of use and unified user experience, not because \\u201cthat\\u2019s where everybody is\\u201d.\\n\\t\\u2022 Once made a choice, users don\\u2019t switch to another similar platform even if it\\u2019s marginally better.\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Vimeo vs YouTube. Google+ vs Facebook.\\n\\t\\u2022 Control of personal data or openness isn\\u2019t a deciding factor for most users.\\n\\t\\u2022 User data and attention is the main product for content distributors.\\n\\t\\u2022 The software offered by content distributors is fairly simple.\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Most of the engineering effort of these companies is going in scaling for a billion users and into mining the data provided by those users.\\n\\t\\u2022 The main components of content distribution:\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Producing content\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Serving content\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Consuming content\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Rating\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Comments and discussion\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Reviewing\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Discovery, subscription, and notification\\n\\t\\t\\u2022 Saving, bookmarking, and organizing\\nAds'