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marbletiles on April 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.co...

Or have it added to their chain beforehand. An ISP could trivially include this as part of their "welcome pack" installer CD or the like.

Would that silently affect people like us? No. Could they do it to all their non-technical customers? Absolutely.

jamespo on April 8, 2013 [–]

Not going to help if their non-technical customers are using ipads or similar though, which non-technical users tend to like

marbletiles on April 8, 2013 | [–]

IOS gives you a friendly and official-looking "accept this certificate?" dialog when you connect to a router that offers one. Non-technical users will accept and proceed without blinking.

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