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		adam-ff on June 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP wit... That's like mailing a postcard to a company that puts it in an envelope for you.

newman314 on June 6, 2016 [–]

Not really. I was thinking along the lines of a localized instance so it would be more akin to things being captured at the perimeter and getting converted there.

So outbound to an insecure HTTP url gets rewritten to pull from a HTTPS url instead etc.

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