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Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by Dylan16807 on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:50PM (#23433101)
TLS itself doesn't have to be broken to have an interceptor.
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Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by 0x0 on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:03PM (#23433286)
If your machine has TLS being intercepted nothing matters anymore. That would be the equivalent of having a keylogger installed. There's no point in trying to protect such a client anymore, it's game over then.
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Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by Dylan16807 on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:20PM (#23433495)
Passive interception happens. Especially when you're using a cipher that isn't forward-secure; a breach of the server could allow it to decrypt previous sessions.
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