On 27/03/13 16:19, Ian Melven wrote:
> another very common MITM situation is a captive portal on public wireless.

True; I think a warning is entirely appropriate in that situation.

> personally, i'm reluctant to conflate network attacks with private browsing 
> mode,
> i believe it's already difficult for users to understand what private browsing
> mode does and doesn't protect against and i think this would make it more so.
> 
> IMO, it would be more productive to focus on captive portal detection
> and more specific/differentiated SSL warnings for all browsing modes.

Fair enough.

Gerv


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