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handsomeransoms on March 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More

> why not always use a VPN?

Because then you're susceptible to remote MITM? VPNs are useful but do not replace end-to-end encryption.

chill1 on March 1, 2014 [–]

That's why I qualified it with local. Have anything to say about checksums too?

lmm on March 1, 2014 | [–]

A checksum that's published via HTTP doesn't protect you against MITM.

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