Re:Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick
by account42 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:39AM
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> But: they opted to use it on purpose.
Or they didn't - e.g. the entire .dev TLD is HSTS preloaded or it could have been a previous domain owner. Or they were blindly following up a guide.
But even if they mean to have HSTS, mistakes do happen and the browser should not prevent me (the user) from working around them.
Security without any other considerations is not reasonable - and if you want that you might as well prevent all connections to avoid all 0days.
Ultimately the browser is not in a position to fully judge the threat model and thus should allow the user to override its guess - always. For example when I want to look at a blog of funny pictures without any login info I don't care if someone tries to MITM that connection. And unless you are in a country with shitty consumer protections, an MITM is already so unlikely to be a conspiracy-theory level concern.
Or they didn't - e.g. the entire .dev TLD is HSTS preloaded or it could have been a previous domain owner. Or they were blindly following up a guide.
But even if they mean to have HSTS, mistakes do happen and the browser should not prevent me (the user) from working around them.
Security without any other considerations is not reasonable - and if you want that you might as well prevent all connections to avoid all 0days.
Ultimately the browser is not in a position to fully judge the threat model and thus should allow the user to override its guess - always. For example when I want to look at a blog of funny pictures without any login info I don't care if someone tries to MITM that connection. And unless you are in a country with shitty consumer protections, an MITM is already so unlikely to be a conspiracy-theory level concern.