Re:China collecting Apple iCloud data
by ryan-c on Monday October 20, 2014 @11:52AM
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See my other comment.
* The popularity of that browser is way over reported - they tend to report "installed" statistics rather than "used".
* If you read the article you'll see self signed certificates were used for the MitM. From my own research, 360 secure browser just doesn't validate certificates in many circumstances. No CA required.
Re:China collecting Apple iCloud data
by ttflee on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:06AM
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According to my observation Qihoo Browser was more frequently used by a tech noob than tech savvy. And this alone poses great risk of the general public regardless to the underlying ethnics and interests.
* The popularity of that browser is way over reported - they tend to report "installed" statistics rather than "used".
* If you read the article you'll see self signed certificates were used for the MitM. From my own research, 360 secure browser just doesn't validate certificates in many circumstances. No CA required.