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Re:Phrack Magazine by beardedwizard on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:26PM (#37286327)
Do you trust certificate authorities? Do you trust the Chinese govt? Russian?

While I agree in principal, in practice https is not very resilient to the attacks you mentioned because CAs are demonstrably [1,2,3] not trustworthy despite being baked into your browser.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar

2: https://therecord.media/mongolian-certificate-authority-hack...

3: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/state...

Re:Phrack Magazine by anonym29 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:09PM (#37287109)
I don't trust CA's, but having two points of weakness in this chain isn't better than having one.