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by dijit 3049 days ago
If you own the machine simply install a CA. Instant trusted everything. Be sure to drop those pesky certificate pinning headers in http though.

In fact I believe sslstrip can do all this for you. Including giving it a CA to generate certificates out of.

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The article describes the fact that the CM Browser ignores certificate errors and shows websites as though they were properly secured. Having an actual proper setup (with a trusted CA etc.) wouldn't help here, because a MITM attack would not be visible, because the middle man's certificate would be shown as valid in any case.

I assume Tencent's QQ Browser validates certificates properly, but combined with a horrible RSA implementation that's not worth anything. It's actually a more clever (less visible) way of pretending to establish secure/authenticated connections.