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I wish the invalid SSL cert warning and the password field on HTTP warning could be permanently disabled for all private IP ranges. They are incredibly annoying.
That would mean malware can use your local ip and hostfile for mitm attacks.
Isn't it already game over if malware can write into your hostfile? At least on Windows you need some elevated access for it, which means such malware could just read/write the target program's memory directly instead of resorting to clunky MitM.
If malware can write my hosts file it's probably all over anyways, it has admin access and just keylog everything and pull passwords directly from browsers.
I'm not saying it should be the default, I just want an
about:configoption to disable them (they used to have one for the insecure password field but it no longer works).Pretty much the only place where I see them. Let’s hope we can disable it in the future.