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because my browser doesn't try to connect to your malicious server

Unless a router is compromised along the route, which is a known thing, and part of why we use ssl everywhere now.



the paragraph immediately following the one you quoted from explains that, and did so nine hours before your comment

the grandparent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34629050 also describes some more common ways that this can happen without routers being compromised


Noted.




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