More US bank silliness

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Sep 9 02:49:55 EDT 2008


Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer at suse.de> writes:

>This reminds me the most weird SSL related error message I have ever seen and
>which is there since ages:
>
>https://www.fbi.gov
>
>Beside that the certificate is wrong :-)

That's an artefact of the SSL MITM that Akamai performs for sites that are
hosted via their service (and up until Kevin Fu pointed out that this was a
problem, any random site you want as well).  You usually don't see this
though, so it's indicative of a configuration error somewhere...

Peter.

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