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To be fair, you could make the same argument that TLS is moot because everything at the other layers (routing, application, and even hardware) is extremely vuln
by r-w 5y ago
To be fair, you could make the same argument that TLS is moot because everything at the other layers (routing, application, and even hardware) is extremely vulnerable to attack. MITM is still a very real thing.
If anything makes it moot, it's not other technology; it's social engineering attacks.
- paxys 5y agoThe point of TLS is that every bit of network infrastructure could be compromised but your connection would still be secure as long as your own device and the end server (and the cert authority) remained clean.