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by kiririn 163 days ago
Even with default https etc, HSTS still adds some defence against MITM - browsers won’t let you even forcibly accept a self signed certificate
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The number of MITM attacks that's thwarted for me remains zero, while sites forgetting to renew their certs despite setting HSTS is a fairly regular occurrence.
Not being able to access the web interface where you have to manually upload a new certificate due to HSTS and the old certificate having expired a couple hours ago...
Yeah it’s more of an annoyance for sure. I only discovered it was a thing when intentionally MITMing a domain on my router