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I think it's fine that they revoked the cert because Ian's site looked exactly like Stripe. The point he made still stands though: That the EV is pretty much only lipstick.

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By "site", are you referring to the actual site, or the EV indicator? Because the site itself doesn't look anything like Stripe's[1].

[1]: https://stripe.ian.sh/

The Tweet shows part of the site as identical to Stripe's: https://twitter.com/iangcarroll/status/940281927789146112

I think the current look was updated later.

It was screenshots taken for the purposes of demonstration and wasn't his publicly hosted site. Do you think that he'd take that kind of risk?

What kind of risk?

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