Re:Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
by MichaelGG on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:13PM
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Finding out what someone is interested in. Search queries or specific articles. Determining their browser information.
If the site is particularly trusted (say, a news site), misleading users into trusting another party. If CNN ran an article about how adding some SSL cert to your trust store would make YouTube faster, a lot of people would do it.
Or you could directly attack the user by providing false information.
If the site is particularly trusted (say, a news site), misleading users into trusting another party. If CNN ran an article about how adding some SSL cert to your trust store would make YouTube faster, a lot of people would do it.
Or you could directly attack the user by providing false information.