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landr0idyesterday at 11:20 PM3 repliesview on HN

I'm surprised Firefox didn't warn me when I went to the page. Hostile teleco/MITM waiting for HTTP traffic are a real-world way that nation states deliver exploits.


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vpShanetoday at 12:18 AM

It did for Librewolf -- what I moved to from Firefox. Self-Signed certs I'm down with, http I'm not, and never will be for any reason. Plain-text data transmissions have no acceptable reasoning.

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gldrktoday at 1:44 AM

PKI is basically powerless against nation states executing a targeted MITM attack. It does prevent them from passively snooping everything.

vhcrtoday at 1:46 AM

You can enable it in the settings.