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

  • redpotatoes@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    4 days ago

    They’d need a certificate authority to issue the certificate, and the victim’s browser would have to trust that authority.

    Edit: and the scammer would need to control the domain DNS server to use the subdomain, like another reply said, so the certificate alone wouldn’t help much.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      215·
      4 days 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@feddit.org
          1·
          3 days ago

          Checks own servers…

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

          Yeah, I’d like to see that…

            • elvith@feddit.org
              1·
              3 days 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·
                3 days 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·
          3 days 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·
            3 days 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·
              3 days 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.