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1. Evan Prodromou Electronic Frontier Foundation

   @eff if you use #https to get data from a trusted place to an untrusted one, it's not really that secure.

   about 4 months ago from web at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
   • Greg Grossmeier Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @evan in reference to... which dent/post by @eff? /me is curious what the issue was

     about 4 months ago
   • Evan Prodromou Greg Grossmeier

     http://identi.ca/url/18629928 and http://identi.ca/url/66582322 .

     about 4 months ago
   • zoowar

     https doesn't secure the endpoints, it secures the transit, protecting communication from unauthorized searches.

     about 3 months ago
   • zoowar

     If backbone ISPs want to know what we're up to, let them do it out in the open by following us on #identica et. al.

     about 3 months ago
   • Evan Prodromou zoowar

     I understand that. I think that most people are more concerned about abuse by service providers than MITM attacks.

     about 3 months ago
   • zoowar

     If people don't trust services they choose, they would trust less services they don't choose--every hop along the transit path.

     about 3 months ago
   • zoowar zoowar

     I'll leave with this extreme case http://ur1.ca/86pui

     
     about 3 months ago