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by capableweb 1612 days ago
Suddenly you can't trust anything you're being served as there are so many endpoints you could be MITM'd at. Reading a text about some experience someone had? Snippets from that text could have been replaced if you are not using any cryptographic protocol what so ever.
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Fair point. But if we're talking about a protocol not meant for the mainstream, is it really an attack vector to worry about?
For some, yes.