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by DangerousPie 4083 days ago
I like this idea. At the moment there is nothing that differentiates a "this cert expired yesterday" warning from a "someone is MITMing your connection" warning, at least not for the casual user.

And since the former is (sadly) pretty common, this only teaches people that these warnings are not that unusual, and can safely be overridden.

It would be much better to have one "the server admin forgot to renew his certificate" type of warning and another "a totalitarian regime is trying to spy on you" type of warning...

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And because of this I overheard someone say "I just click Okay because else the website won't load!".