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Re:TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days by tikkabhuna on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:00PM (#43709707)
But isn't that exactly the previous posters point? Free WiFI someone can just MITM your connection, you would never know and you think its encrypted. Its the worst possible outcome. At least when there's no encryption browsers can tell the user to be careful.
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Re:TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days by IshKebab on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:57PM (#43710307)
They could still tell the user to be careful without authentication.

He wasn't proposing that encryption without authentication gets the full padlock and green text treatment.

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