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Privacy basics, can anyone help?
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Https is based on the web of trust. You're trusting each of the central certificate authorities not to issue a certificate incorrectly.
So if you're doing something sensitive enough that somebody might compromise their certificate authority for then HTTPS is not the be all end all.
There was a fun program that the Great firewall of China was running, they would look at where you were sending traffic, and then do a man in the middle attack giving you a different certificate so that they can see what you were actually saying unencrypted.