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Almost on display: heavy-handed web-browsers that won't let us visit a site, for our own good.



Unfortunately the way cookies, etc. work it's nontrivial for a browser to just visit a site that's offering a compromised certificate without undermining past and future security.

A revoked certificate being offered doesn't have any innocent explanations, you would want to use a specialized tool not a general-purpose web browser to analyze it.




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