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by riffraff 5613 days ago
but that is the case in which yoiu _already have_ the footprint. Parent^2 is talking about the first connection, which is when you validate the fingerprint the first time.
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Why don't people validate?

That doesn't make any sense to me. There are even free services that can perform the validation for you based on a "crowdsourced" approach to verification, like Perspectives:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/perspectives-provi...