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Remember the C-I-A triad of security. I consider the integrity of messages to-and-from the web to be very important. Many of us lived through days when ISPs o
by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Remember the C-I-A triad of security.
I consider the integrity of messages to-and-from the web to be very important.
Many of us lived through days when ISPs or some other greedy middleman injected ads into unsecured web pages. They played DNS tricks too.
Imagine if you had an app download that could be maliciously modified in-flight.
Furthermore, a certificate can guarantee you’re not connected to an imposter. What if the TFA link was redirected to “abevigoda.com”? Catastrophe!