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		lfowles on June 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox That's roughly the purpose of HSTS, but you need to have visited the site at least once first (or in the case of popular sites, HSTS status of a site is shipped with the browser.)

schoen on June 29, 2015 [–]

People who are encountering this for the first time might want to look at

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

for some of the motivation!

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