• nutel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, your comment just shows your tech illiteracy. https is useless when you don’t need to deal with sensitive data.

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      1 year ago

      It’s definitely not the case that it’s useless. A MITM can embed malware into the page it returns if you aren’t being served over HTTPS. It’s not just about snooping on sensitive data going one or both ways, it’s about being sure that what you’re receiving is from who you actually think you’re receiving it from.

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          1 year ago

          Indeed. See my edit on the parent comment–I noticed that the website provides commands to the user to run, which makes it ripe for MITM attacks: if the user is copying-and-pasting commands to run into their shell, those need to be served over HTTPS.