Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by alternize 4255 days ago
the redirect happens _after_ the certificate warning. to get to the redirect, you have to accept the self signed certificate first.

so it might still scare people away, and rightfully so: normal folks cannot distinguish a self signed certificate from a malicious used one f.e. used in phishing attempts.

2 comments

> normal folks cannot distinguish a self signed certificate from a malicious used one

What do you mean with "normal folks"? Nobody can possibly distinguish this, since an attacker would also just use a self-signed certificate.