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Re:Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate? by itistoday2 on Saturday May 31, 2014 @12:56PM (#7826489)
CA-signed certificates do not mean that you are not being MITM'd. They are actually worse in that they give everyone (including the browser) a false sense of security that you have to pay for.

See detailed reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826443

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