API flaws said to have left Symantec SSL certificates vulnerable to compromise

All the news about this seem to be come from this facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/cbyrneiv/posts/10155129935452436

There is some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security... Which also includes a detailed comment from Tarah, the Principal Security Advocate and Senior Director of Engineering at Symantec Website Security.