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Comment on The Case of the Modified Binaries

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Companies and developers need to make the conscious decision to host binaries via SSL/TLS

Of course the problem with that is that countries with censorship like china seriously throttle or outright block any SSL connection that are made outside of the country. And sometimes they even use something like SSL strip to do a MITM attack with a self signed certificate.

Average users there are also used to seeing self signed certificates locally and so never even think twice before discarding a message alerting them that a SSL certificate is not valid.

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