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Heh, let the arms race begin!

When every browser ships with verified fingerprints for a lot of important websites, it will be nearly impossible to use fraudulent SSL certificates on any significant scale without triggering a worldwide alarm.

Chrome already reports home when it encounters a forged certificate for any Google property. Firefox has started to use Chrome's HSTS preload list too, and Microsoft said they would use it in IE & Spartan on Windows 10. The future isn't looking good for would-be certificate forgers.



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