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How can you ever know what is dangerous or not for the user to do? Get some humility.

That's exactly the mindset that put us in this horrible situation. People would start warning against bad crypto much sooner if the consequences weren't as bad as browsers made them. We could even have warnings against plain HTTP already if browser security wasn't this radical.



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