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If you control any firewall or router along the way you can inject iframes which retrieve any url you like and run script in the same-origin context. Except for "https only" sites, but note that Microsoft helpfully provides the government of Tunisia with a trusted root CA in their products. Try https://www.certification.tn/ . I wonder if it's a code-signing cert?


> Microsoft helpfully provides the government of Tunisia with a trusted root CA in their products

Isn't this rather huge news? Why did they do this sort of downgrading hackery when they could do a more elegant (and slightly more transparent) man in the middle?


A) It's better to avoid using your capability even if you have it.

B) Probably a lot of users prefer Mozilla, though it may defer to the system store on Windows anyway, I'm not sure.

C) For the same reasons it's a pain for FB to use https everywhere, it's a pain for Tunisia to set up SSL interception on their outbound connections. There are certainly off-the-shelf boxes which can do it though.


Yes, it's a code signing cert.

If you have access to a Windows machine, visit http://bit.ly/eWYRbA in IE then check your personal cert store for Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique




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