Apple on Tuesday told browser users to pay attention to warnings of insecure digital certificates after reports of a “man-in-the-middle” attack against iCloud.com in China was revealed earlier in the week.

But Apple’s support document, which illustrated the alerts that Chrome, Firefox and Safari post when they have encountered a self-signed certificate, omitted the most popular browser used in the People’s Republic of China (PRC): Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE).

The omission wasn’t a shocker: Apple narrowly couched the warning as solely aimed at iOS and OS X customers. “These attacks don’t compromise iCloud servers, and they don’t impact iCloud sign in on iOS devices or Macs running OS X Yosemite using the Safari browser,” Apple said.

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