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lawnchair_larry on Aug 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certific...

I'm confused about how this was detected. The original report provided this screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/hs0H4.jpg

If it is a case of a root CA signing a cert for someone else, this shouldn't have actually produced an error. What did the MITMers screw up here?

stock_toaster on Aug 29, 2011 [–]

Chrome feature, as noted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938905

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