Well what destroys the company is not the generation of a certificate, but the publication. I think the state would compel the company not disclose it, so they would coerce the company into not destroying itself.

Do you thing Google or Apple are going to care? They bowed down to China, I think the state they have their headquarters in has even more leverage. As for Mozilla Firefox on Linux, maybe, but I wouldn't trust this too much either.

> I think they have more targeted ways that risk less detection and less collateral damage.

I think they don't really need to care about this, it was quite clear that no other state is publicly doing anything against this.