Re: Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

On 9/26/13 2:34 PM, Nick Jennings wrote:
> In my opinion, (ie. for my use-cases) the value of an SSL cert is just 
> to prevent MITM attacks and the like. Having an "officially issued" 
> cert also gets rid of the annoying acceptance pop-up that you get from 
> self-signed certs.
An artifact of browser implementations.

Henry:

Do you have a list of issue tracker URLs for the reports that have been 
lodged over the years, for each of the major browsers? I think it time 
for us to collectively push the browser vendors to do better by X.509 
and TLS re. UI/UX.

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