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More powerful attackers can certainly respond with fake DNS replies and obtain certificates for any domain they like. This is a flaw inherent to all domain validation (DV) certificates. The solution is a combination of certificate transparency and public key pinning so that misissued certificates can detected and blocked.
But this blog post was about an attack which anyone on the Internet could have conducted, not just NSA-level adversaries.
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