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anonymarsyesterday at 8:59 PM1 replyview on HN

I will say, I have never before this season seen so many seemingly-legit fake web stores. All with their little lock icons in the address bar. I assume LLMs helped kick it into overdrive too


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array_key_firstyesterday at 11:51 PM

Conflating transport-layer encryption with authenticity is the problem. The former should always be standard, the latter is unrelated and IMO needs a different mechanism.

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