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gruez • today at 5:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you're doing a MITM attack, you can selectively intercept certain clients, and only serve the compromised certificate in those cases only. Automated scanners won't pick that up. None of this actually works though, because browsers started mandating certificate transparency.


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ranger_danger • today at 9:02 PM

Please be careful with your phrasing, as there are MANY other critical things on this planet that use TLS certs which are not browsers, and some are extremely difficult/impossible to update.

VPNs, embedded software (IoT, automotive, aerospace, medical, industrial etc.), business systems, you name it.