Best practices for using ServerCertificateValidationCallback

An acceptable (safe) methodology working in .NET 4.5+ is to use HttpWebRequest.ServerCertificateValidationCallback. Assigning that callback on a specific instance of request will change the validation logic just for the request, not influencing other requests.

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://...");
request.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 
        (sender, cert, chain, error) =>
{
    return cert.GetCertHashString() == "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
};