I recall that subdomains are their own record inside a DNS, which would imply that anyone can claim that their server is a non-existent subdomain of the real domain

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    215·
    1 month ago

    I’ve been able to downgrade https sites to plain http sites, through a series of loopholes which I won’t go into.

      • Elvith Ma'for
        1·
        1 month ago

        Checks own servers…

        Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload

        Yeah, I’d like to see that…

          • Elvith Ma'for
            1·
            1 month ago

            Yeah, but now you’re talking about communicating with web.archive.org and not nonesense.reputable-bank.com as in the original post. In this case you’re not even trying to hide the fact, that you aren’t affiliated with reputable-bank.com and we’re back to square one and you could also just use reputable-bank.com.some.malicious-phishing.website to host your page.

            Btw: all modern browsers will warn you when you access a non-encrypted website - some immediately, some only when you try to enter data into a login form.

            • over_clox@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 month ago

              I’m not trying to log into anything nor am I trying to get anyone’s personal information. I mostly use the archive to make it a lot easier for legacy operating systems to access and download files and software and stuff.

              You ever put Windows 3.11 or other legacy operating systems on the internet? Easier said than done, but http is basically the only way.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        My own security? Hah, that’s a joke right?

        Everything on the Internet Archive can be accessed via simple http, even if the original archived site was https.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          All that does is allow someone in the middle to potentially read your traffic. So what’s secret about the traffic between you and the Internet archive? If it’s only your login details, that seems like a you problem.

          It wasn’t long ago that most of the internet was http only.

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            Who said I log into anything? I have terabytes of files archived, without any accounts anywhere, not even the archive. I’m not that stupid.