On Mon, November 25, 2013 12:06 am, ianG wrote: > For some reason, news.google.com has been captured by *.opendns.com and > turned into a site warning. OK, so I imagine there is a story about > this somewhere, maybe it's just my ISP... > > > > But, imagine my surprise when I tried it on chrome and I got an > informative message in ONE GO: > > You attempted to reach news.google.com, but instead you actually reached > a server identifying itself as *.opendns.com. This may be caused by a > misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker > on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and > potentially harmful) version of news.google.com. > You cannot proceed because the website operator has requested heightened > security for this domain. > > AMAZING! Informative. Clear. Precise. Immediate. Fullsome. Red!
Yellow. No longer Red. And not always informative or clear - see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=320649 > > > > Meanwhile Firefox still wallows along with its epic saga that takes 4 > clicks and a masters degree in PKI so you can figure out the precise > path to follow, to finally read that the thing returned wasn't what you > expected, but if you still remember your PKI training you can try some > certificate anthropology and dig out the bones of the domain to which > you've been re-directed. > > > > Chrome's handling of this is so superior, I didn't even notice there is > no option to continue to the site ... > > iang > -- > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
