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yread on July 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

what about certificate for IP address?

landgenoot on July 16, 2025 [–]

What about a route that gets hijacked? There is no HSTS for IP addresses.

sathackr on July 16, 2025 | [–]

Presumably the route hijacker wouldn't have a valid private key for the certificate so they wouldn't pass validation

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