Comment Re:MITM legalized at last (Score 3, Interesting) 294
Until relatively recently, these re-directions would adversely affect a debian/ubuntu linux system update procedure. A cron job would apt-get update and pull in new index files. Since the transport was not encrypted, the index files would not be what the apt system were expecting. It would store the content of the redirected web page instead of the proper index files into a cache and then apt-get update would be forever broken until you manually figured out how to delete the corrupted files someplace in
ISP's and WiFi Access points that do this redirection are the reason why HTTPS everywhere is a good idea.