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Re:What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network by smtddr on Saturday October 18, 2014 @10:42PM (#8477055)
Don't know if this works still today... but I've definitely used it before: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
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Re:What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network by domenicd on Sunday October 19, 2014 @12:16AM (#8477200)
I think that attack is exactly what HSTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security) is meant to solve.
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