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What does having a "well trusted TLS cert" enable for them in this case, exactly? Having a magical cert doesn't mean you can just intercept everything.

• odo1242 12d ago
  On the contrary, it lets you MITM encrypted communications by swapping the website's original certificate for the "well trusted TLS cert"
  • strictnein 12d ago
    No, it doesn't. HSTS and other methods prevent this from happening.
    • kelnos 12d ago
      HSTS doesn't protect you from this at all. It only requires HTTPS, which a spoofed-but-trusted cert passes just fine. No mainstream browser (or any browser?) is doing cert pinning. What "other methods" are there that are deployed and actually in use?
      • peanut-walrus 12d ago
        Transparency logs. It's mandatory for a cert to be in CT logs for browsers to trust it. Those are public, if this was happening, someone would have noticed already.
        • chews 11d ago
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