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lukan 58 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blo...

Erm, where is the danger in a mismatched certificate, if all I want is to get some noncritical information from a blog or something?

eggprices 57 days ago [–]

Local privilege escalation in your browser is a danger. They can also abuse any privileges you gave to the website, such as camera and microphone.

lukan 57 days ago | [–]

Why would I give a "random blog" access to my camera or microphon?

And how can a wrong certificate lead to local privilege escalation?

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