This DNS over HTTP thing

[jan at philippi.pw (Jan Philippi)]

The thing is: People were conditioned for years to look for the padlock,
because padlock means secure.

How will we ever get this out of their minds..

Jan

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Am 02.10.19 um 11:45 schrieb Valdis KlÄ?tnieks:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 01:55:13 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said:
> 
>> It is a common fallacy that TLS connections are authenticated.  The vast
>> majority of them are not authenticated in any meaningful fashion and all that
>> can be said about TLS is that it provides an encrypted connection between the
>> two communicating applications.  This is perhaps why it is call *transport*
>> layer security ...
> 
> Another major disconnect is that TLS validates the hostname that the browser
> decided to connect to, not the host you thought you were connecting to..
> 
> The end result is that if a phish directs you to nan0g.org, it can still show a
> padlock and the user is none the wiser....
> 

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