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by CiPHPerCoder 2893 days ago
> With regards to malicious ISPs MITMing their users: they kinda control your DNS requests, so good luck with that.

HTTPS security doesn't depend on DNS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ex...

Please keep in mind: I do app security for a living.

> An ISP can always inject into the HTTP -> HTTPS redirection, and serve HTTP right there and then.

...they said, in a thread about a popular browser marking HTTP insecure.

Do you really think HTTPS-by-default is out of the question in the future, especially if adoption rates exceed 99%?