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  • quaff@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Do I need https on everything
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    3 hours ago

    Always use HTTPS. Especially if you’re using your services on mobile.

    Imagine you’re on your friend’s WiFi, and you disconnect from your net bird/tailscale/wireguard connection to your self hosted network… Any and all mobile apps that require that secure connection, is going to attempt requests to your internal services and sending auth/session token details along the requests.

    A bad actor on your friend’s WiFi network, could, in theory, capture these requests and now you’re at the mercy of how well those services are written.

    This all may sound a bit paranoid, but it is what we are trying to mitigate here.