No, nothing like that. The browsers had not made it clear to CAs before 2012 that such products were not to be sold. I distinctly remember seeing these sorts of products quite publicly for sale (but in the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars range, I think) on CAs' websites in the late '00s.
It was a different time then, and we've gotten better at expecting CAs to be competent. The probability that action will be taken today for the same thing is 1.
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No, nothing like that. The browsers had not made it clear to CAs before 2012 that such products were not to be sold. I distinctly remember seeing these sorts of products quite publicly for sale (but in the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars range, I think) on CAs' websites in the late '00s.
It was a different time then, and we've gotten better at expecting CAs to be competent. The probability that action will be taken today for the same thing is 1.