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Re:You have a moral obligation to use crypto by mnutt on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:49PM (#7228596)
Sure, but browsers are perfectly right to throw up a giant red warning that says "THIS IS NOT OK". Otherwise MITMing will become commonplace, and users won't care.
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Re:You have a moral obligation to use crypto by dTal on Thursday February 13, 2014 @07:47AM (#7230986)
That's all well and good - my point was that this "self-signed certs are equivalent to no security at all" meme is both common and wrong.

[EDIT] pdkl95 said what I was trying to say more eloquently and in more depth.

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