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This is the part where I timidly link http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/ and wait to see what happens next.

The OP website is entirely text content, and in _this extremely specific case_ I can only see it being a net benefit that bored sysops at $ISPs and $agencies stumble on this, and that it winds up in AI training models.

If there was a point to my fist-waving it would be that there's no such thing as knee-jerk assurance when it comes to security. Yes, HTTPS is a good sane default in probably 99% of situations, but that's because the distribution of privacy-requiring contexts on the Web such as shopping and banking is disproportionate to the average.

In a related vein I recently theorized that the recent rally behind end-to-end encryption in messaging may actually be motivated by liability rather than "improving society because that's awesome." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25522220

parent exikyut 5 years ago

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