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Honest Ahmed (2011)

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Re: Honest Ahmed (2011)

#21
post #8

Am I the only one that understands 10% of what's going on? Obviously they won't add his CA, and there seems to be some other links to joke requests, but what am I missing?

They are poking fun at the seemingly random (and non-trustworthy) companies which are allowed to issue root CAs and how hard it is to remove them if they reach the "too big to fail" status.

Re: Honest Ahmed (2011)

#29

The best part is the website hxxps://www.honestachmed.dyndns.org/ is still up.

pardon the side question, what is this trend of rewriting http in hxxp ? a reflex from platforms that don't allow sharing urls ?

I do this to defang the url to prevent unintentional clicks or automatic previewing when working and reporting on security events. Sometimes the habit bleeds over.
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