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> Doesn't really matter where its hosted when most North American connections go through New York Actually, it does matter. Https is end-to-end encryption. An
by Hermel 11y ago
> Doesn't really matter where its hosted when most North American connections go through New York
Actually, it does matter. Https is end-to-end encryption. An eavesdropper in New York would have to crack SSL in order to see anything meaningful beyond the fact that you exchanged some data with hulbee.com .
- captaincrunch 11y agoI would bet that the NSA has access to most root certificates... specially when they've had access to hard drive firmware for the last few years... http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/ http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/
- astrange 11y agoIf you used a CA certificate to sign a new SSL cert for any popular domain, it'd be detected by certificate fingerprinting and you'd burn the CA. Not worth it over public networks.