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halayli
on Feb 21, 2015
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Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Aston...
If you have a computer between the user and net, then yes all bets are off because you can generate certs the browser will trust.
Animats
on Feb 21, 2015
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Only if the root cert store of the user's machine has been tampered with. If you have a valid cert store, you can detect MITM attacks on HTTPS connections.
halayli
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yep. I was referring to superfish's case.
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