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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 @01:58PM (#7826662)
I think he was making a joke. Those pictures do nothing to prevent TLS MITM attacks.
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Re:Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate? by gburt on Saturday May 31, 2014 @02:48PM (#7826859)
I thought about this for a second, and what it does do is take an "offline" phishing attack and make it an "online" phishing attack that presumably has logs and can be throttled.
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