Re: [blink-dev] Re: Proposal: Marking HTTP As Non-Secure

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Sigbjørn Vik <sigbjorn@opera.com> wrote:
>> What would happen exactly when
>> you visit e.g. google.com from the airport (connected to something
>> with a shitty captive portal)?
>
> Assuming interstitials were replaced with cache separation:
>
> The browser would detect that this isn't the same secure google you
> talked to yesterday, and not share any data you got from google
> yesterday with the captive portal. Once you reconnect to the authentic
> google, the browser would use the first set of data again.

How would the user distinguish this case from cookies expiring,
getting lost for some reason, or the monthly two-factor authentication
dance? This sounds very dangerous.

What if google.com uses certificate pinning?


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Received on Monday, 22 December 2014 12:05:37 UTC