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Comment by bracewel

There is a fifth, incredibly common, (arguably) non-malicious possibility.

You don't control the entirety of your web stack, and your hosting provider, or DNS provider, or someone else, has decided to be 'helpful' (either blindly, or due to some misconfiguration somewhere along the line) and issue a certificate on your behalf, as they are able to intercept CA validation traffic at the DNS, TLS, or HTTP layer.

parent bracewel 4 years ago

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