On 12 July 2002, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

(However, I do think that anyone wanting to compromise your security will use this morning's MSIE hole to do it rather than buying a CA key. OTOH it'd be a great universal skeleton key for government agencies charged with protecting the world from equestrians).

Damn those equestrians and their great horse sense!