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Secure web? That'll cost you, thanks to Mozilla's HTTPS plan

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: If selling certificates becomes like selling domains...

"they'll still prevent man-in-the-middle alteration"

If world & dog just ignores dodgy or revoked certs (like Google do in Chrome) when so many stink and/or change for no good reason, then what is to stop an ISP doing a proxy with some self-signed cert for everywhere?

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