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coretxtoday at 4:58 AM1 replyview on HN

Because SNI. Also, State (sponsored) Actors are certificate authorities. HTTPS is the biggest scam in internet history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication


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astrangetoday at 7:04 AM

This certainly was an issue but it's solved by ECH/DoH. As long as they aren't blocked on your network anyway.

> Also, State (sponsored) Actors are certificate authorities.

To generate a fake certificate as a CA you have to either put it in the Certificate Transparency log, in which case everyone will notice, or don't, in which case browsers will notice (they know what top sites' certificates are supposed to look like) and your CA will get shut down.

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