Ask HN: Why doesn't Microsoft update website use SSL/TLS?

update.microsoft.com

1 pointbshastry2 comments

That is outdated.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31861/windows-up...

Thanks for pointing out. If the updates site does use some sort of certificate pinning for IE, I wonder why the browser pops up the following warning before running the Microsoft update add-on: "If you trust this website...click here..."

Reply on news.ycombinator.com