Uneasy Money: Is the Internet Breaking Because Bots Never Get Lazy?

Internet trust infrastructure, from certificate authorities to PHP, is failing because its security assumptions never accounted for tireless AI agents probing weaknesses.

• eMudhra's number-4 key: Certificate authority eMudhra signed internet certificates for over a year (since April 2025) using a private key that was literally the number 4, among eight weak keys between 0-256, despite passing two audits.
• Revocation runs on email: Fixing compromised trust-chain certificates depends on an informal email thread between Google, Mozilla, Apple and the researcher who found the bug, with no clean automated process.

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