• diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        You can always use pihole to mess with your local dns and resolve to a fake website that looks like your social media of choice and collect their password

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          22 hours ago

          Only if the user ignores the “unsafe connection” warning in the browser, since you won’t have an SSL certificate for the domain

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            16 hours ago

            Hmm good point… you would need the ca to sign off on it self signed doesn’t work… it’s just a file though right? Couldn’t you rip it from the real server?

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              it’s just a file though right? Couldn’t you rip it from the real server?

              No, that’s not how TLS works. The certificate is not exposed to the internet unless the admins of the webserver are extremely incompetent. That would defeat the entire purpose, not only could you impersonate the server, but the encryption would also be futile since anyone would have access to the private key.

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      2 days ago

      lol, warned 2 guys I worked with not to use the starbucks free wifi or any free wifi. One of them had their bank info compromised, the other had their google compromised.