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		tootie on Sept 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps Apps are just as bad. Worse because you can't see if you're transmitting over https or not.

bsilvereagle on Sept 24, 2015 [–]

You could argue that apps are worse since they can cert pin and prevent you from mitm'ing your https traffic - you have no clue what data is being sent.

With browsers (for now, Chrome on iOS may start/be cert pinning) you can install a cert and still mitm.

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