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by colde 2556 days ago
There would be a number of ways to do this:

- Strip SSL by for instance blocking port 443 and hoping they fall back to HTTP.

- Get your own root certificate installed on the equipment of the user you are attacking. This is fairly common in corporate environments for instance.

- MD5 collision attacks (although almost every certificate would be SHA signed these days)

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HSTS prevents the first of these if the client has connected to the server previously.

Chrome also hasn't trusted certs with MD5 since version 65.

HSTS Preload prevents that from happening even if they never visited the site