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It wasn’t always like that. In the 90s I remember to get a cert we had to pay a fee for a background check (Dun & Bradstreet, Companies House, etc). Obviously n
by gaius 8y ago
It wasn’t always like that. In the 90s I remember to get a cert we had to pay a fee for a background check (Dun & Bradstreet, Companies House, etc). Obviously not foolproof but a massively greater assurance than anyone gets today.
- tazard 8y agoWould it be better if your phished credentials were MITM'd by a third party scammer due to being sent in clear text instead of going directly to the original scammers? I for one don't think so.
- gaius 8y agoOf all the recent high profile breaches, none would have been mitigated by HTTPS, or occurred anyway. Let me clarify that I don’t object to encryption - I object to telling the user “this site is secure” when there is no way to know that