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etherealG
on June 26, 2011
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Google Chrome Now Blocks Insecure Scripts on HTTPS
can you explain how this is a charade? I would think that posting my username & password from a http site to a https site still does ssl negotiation before sending that username and password along a network pipe. Doesn't sound like a charade to me.
mnutt
on June 26, 2011
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The only problem is that someone can MITM your connection to the http page and send you back javascript that steals your password.
capnrefsmmat
on June 26, 2011
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Or just change the form so it POSTs to their secret evil server, rather than to the secure site.
burgerbrain
on June 27, 2011
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It eliminates the positive feedback browsers normally present. No positive feedback is bad news (see sslstrip).
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