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sneak 5 days ago

Apple did something similar in 2015:

CVE-2015-3774

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3774

https://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/...

You had to three-finger press to trigger it, though. Similarly, it used unencrypted HTTP. I reported it and it was fixed to use TLS.

The dev defending this unencrypted behavior is really wild, though.

koito17 5 days ago | parent [-]

Most Chinese sites do not use HTTPS. In fact, TLS 1.3 traffic seems to be completely blocked within China's internet.[1] The decision to use plain HTTP is only strange from a Western viewpoint. Note: I am not defending this behavior. I still remember the era of ISPs injecting content into webpages. But it's important to keep in mind our subset of the world does not reflect the rest of the world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24093932

sneak 4 days ago | parent [-]

It does reflect the rest of the world; China is the extreme outlier here.

Also, accessing GitHub from within mainland China works, so TLS is not completely banned.