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To: RayChuang88
Fix coming for Google Chrome 52.x versions in 3...2...1...

I doubt it is something a mere browser can fix. This is going to require a change in the HTTPS standards. This occurs because of the way the Encryption is designed in the standard. . . which all browsers have to meet to work on the Internet when using HTTPS.

4 posted on 07/26/2016 1:18:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: Swordmaker

Well, Google could adopt the way Microsoft accesses HTTPS websites with Edge and Internet Explorer 11.0—that only requires a relatively minor code change.


6 posted on 07/26/2016 1:30:06 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Swordmaker

This is not a hack of HTTPS. It’s merely a way to snoop URLs by redirecting HTTPS traffic through a compromised Web Proxy server. Home users and most organizations are unaffected because WPAD is rarely used in the modern era of fast WANs and near unlimited local storage.

In fact the most common use of web proxies today is to let organizations snoop their employees web acitivity - exactly what this so called ‘hack’ does.


12 posted on 07/27/2016 12:09:27 PM PDT by Gideon7
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