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> Ian run a legit site, not phishing

He originally had a site that looked extremely similar to stripe's official website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16939094

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I can't find any copies of that in any cache showing it was ever actually online, simply mocked-up photos posted to social media.

Posted by Ian himself. Why would he go to the trouble of mocking it up?

Presumably to demonstrate that a phishing site using such a certificate would be visually indistinguishable from the targeted site.

There's a difference between resolving something locally or setting up a demo for the purposes of capturing screenshots and having a website resolve on the public Internet and serve that content.

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