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by yjftsjthsd-h 869 days ago
No, it still means that you've connected to the domain that you wanted to connect to and the connection is reasonably resistant to MITM attacks. It doesn't say anything about who controls the domain, but what it provides still isn't nothing.
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It is not about the domain.

"It is not a good indicator of trustworthiness of the actual thing you download."

I just downloaded something with malware from github.com. I indeed wanted to connect to github.com and I trust that it is Github.com. But again ... it did not say _anything_ about the trustworthyness of the _actual_ thing I did, which was to download an asset from that domain.

That is my point. In the context of this discussion about downloading dependencies.