Alt account of @Badabinski

Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • MITM HTTPS traffic without a key doesn’t really let you do much of anything, especially with stuff like HSTS. You can mess with DNS, but the whole certificate authority thing is meant to make it so you can’t redirect someone’s traffic to a malicious server.

    This leaked private key completely destroys that guarantee, making it extremely scary. ~Plus, saved traffic for any site signed by this key which didn’t use PFS will be subject to post-facto decryption.~

    edit: I don’t know wtf I was thinking, the decryption thing is nonsense.







  • When you use a scrubby sponge on a scorched pan, the scrubby part becomes much darker and seems gross and dirty. It can be very difficult to remove the gross brown stain from the sponge. People like to use sponges for a while, but nobody wants to use the gross brown poop sponge, so folks attempt to clean them. This process is extremely frustrating.