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by sneak 4863 days ago
> Many open source products seem to just query a URL and direct you to go download stuff. With SSL essentially broken, that's gotta be a bit risky vs. MITM.

There's nothing stopping one from linking against their own copy of an SSL lib, and supplying their own list of trust anchors/trusted CAs. I've been wondering for a while why lots of apps (e.g. mobile apps) don't do this more often.