Timeline for Can First Hop Man in the Middle be Defeated with Tor or VPN?
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| Feb 16, 2015 at 7:57 | comment | added | Oli | @MoonPoint This is a few years old, using FF2-3 and IE7. Modern browsers are much more explicit about the risk of dodgy certificates so I would like to think that a similar study today would show better results. | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 21:50 | comment | added | MoonPoint | As noted in Web users ignoring security certificate warnings, many users will ignore warnings from their browsers about certificate errors: "Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have found that Web users often ignore warnings in browsers about the validity of a Web site's digital certificate." | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | Alex N. | This is a good point. There is quite a bit of notice that it is happening, which is probably more than enough for anyone who understands what is happening. However, most people (including many business people who would be using VPNs simply because their IT guys told them they had to) wouldn't understand how serious this warning is and would simply bypass it. At this point the P in VPN becomes more public than private, correct? | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 23:22 | history | answered | Oli | CC BY-SA 3.0 |