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wafflemakeryesterday at 2:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

On multiple occasions I had trouble getting people to accept a self signed cert to show them something on a local webpage. It seems that elderly nowadays are super vary of any hacking or scams. YMMV.


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JoshTriplettyesterday at 8:44 PM

Excellent, security education is working. The correct response to someone trying to convince you to accept a self-signed certificate is extreme skepticism; don't undermine people's understanding of good security practices.

jrapdx3yesterday at 7:56 PM

> It seems that elderly nowadays are super vary of any hacking or scams. YMMV.

I'm sure you meant "wary". How amazing, education really does work. There is such a thing as overabundance of caution. But it's possible further education could encourage users to apply more balanced caution policies.