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kiririn | 2 months 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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AlotOfReading|2 months ago

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.

zeeZ|2 months ago

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...

kiririn|2 months 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