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chpatrick • yesterday at 12:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You can take your laptop to a busy place, make a "free wifi" hotspot that runs everything through mitmproxy and you can steal everything.


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itintheory • yesterday at 1:50 PM

I think "everything" is an overstatement. Browsers included the compromised intermediates in their CRLs within hours of disclosure.

So this isn't like Firesheep [0]. Yes, there would be vulnerable traffic, like the git client this thread is discusing, but it's not "everything"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

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