News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all. Parent comment

Re:Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free... by haswell on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:23PM (#27509109)
It does not have to magically open the server to open an attack vector against the site by other means, e.g. MITM on an open WiFi access point. Other comments in this thread discuss this in more depth so I’m not elaborating here.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free... by gsich on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:41AM (#27516192)
Not against the site, against the client connecting.
[ Parent | on HN ]