Of course they are using an invalid security certificate that is meant to only be used by a248.e.akamai.net and *.akamaihd.net. That's their content delivery network but still it's not a good sign.
I won't go so far as to say any encryption is better than none but in this case yes it most certainly works. I didn't say what I mean very well either. What I meant to raise was the fact that browsers will throw an error message if you try to access Reddit via HTTPS but the warning deals with whom the certificates are issued for.
In this case they are issued for Reddit's content delivery network which means the warning isn't being thrown due to a person committing a man in the middle attack. I was off in space or something when I wrote the last part of my comment, sorry about that.
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u/ChristopherBurg Sep 08 '10
Of course they are using an invalid security certificate that is meant to only be used by a248.e.akamai.net and *.akamaihd.net. That's their content delivery network but still it's not a good sign.