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vog on Sept 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sslip.io: A Valid SSL Certificate for Every IP Add...

Nice hack, but:

What's preventing them from resolving YOUR-IP.sslip.io to a completely different IP address that delivers some malware to you?

EDIT: Changed "your users" to "you"

pki on Sept 8, 2015 [–]

because you shouldn't have users on this

vog on Sept 8, 2015 | [–]

(See EDIT) Okay, so what's preventing them from develivering strange stuff to you, that claims to be your test site, but isn't?

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