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by XorNot 4813 days ago
Web-of-trust schemes are effective. The usual way we find out about stuff like this happening is word-of-mouth. Infrastructure for the process would automate it - after all the only thing you need is a way to say "this is what the certificate's hash should be".
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I'm not asserting that there's no other way to do it, just that getting rid of the popup that says the site is untrusted is not a solution, nor even a step in the right direction, IMHO.