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Actually, to me the first thought after seeing the URL was totally: "wow, I wonder what backronym they invented for the ugly wwwi suffix." And the others posts
by akavel 12y ago
Actually, to me the first thought after seeing the URL was totally: "wow, I wonder what backronym they invented for the ugly wwwi suffix." And the others posts in this thread seem to confirm that this was the case, and that this prettification mechanism is actually quite common on Tor already.
Now, the other, more important for me observation is, that reportedly the TLS certificate is actually worth close to nothing, and giving false security, as a HNer claims to have got a valid cert issued for this very same facebook's .onion address already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539066 -- if I understand correctly, cert issuers seem to happily accept any .onion URLs in "alternative addresses" in SSL certs without any verification. Anybody else could confirm/deny?
- wowaname 12y agoI cannot confirm nor deny, but if this is true, that just proves how flawed the CA system is.