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You know, I've never really realized that before. It's actually a pretty huge security hole for average users, no? There should be a way to explicitly forbid no
by 3pt14159 11y ago
You know, I've never really realized that before. It's actually a pretty huge security hole for average users, no? There should be a way to explicitly forbid non-encrypted connections on a DNS level.
- lfowles 11y agoThat's roughly the purpose of HSTS, but you need to have visited the site at least once first (or in the case of popular sites, HSTS status of a site is shipped with the browser.)
- schoen 11y agoPeople who are encountering this for the first time might want to look at http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ for some of the motivation!