Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot
by cjbprime on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:43PM
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I haven't tried it either, but many big name sites use certificate pinning to avoid the attacking form of this MITM.
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A manually trusted cert overrides pinning, it's only protecting against certs signed by another of the default installed certs (otherwise Google and others simply wouldn't work in many corporate environments).