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In an increasingly end-to-end encrypted world, wouldn't services like this be going away eventually?
by aorth 11y ago
In an increasingly end-to-end encrypted world, wouldn't services like this be going away eventually?
- mindslight 11y agoYeah honestly. You'd naively think that with increased bandwidth, we'd be playing fewer backwards games. But you'd be wrong, because more traffic actually means it's more enticing for providers to engage in such "optimization". We're at the point where the end-to-end principle really requires strong crypto to resist economic attacks such as this one.