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by BearGoesChirp 3176 days ago
I know of companies with typos in their links that they email. These typos lead to scam sites. I've contacted them and they haven't yet fixed it. There needs to be a serious re-evaluation of the costs associated with failing such basic security measures like using https and just making sure you send people the correct link. Right now it isn't even a slap on the wrist.
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If the site supports HTTPS, they should just preload HSTS to avoid future problems with HTTP.
Sure, but you can configure a webserver to always redirect to the https version of a site.