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Here's some rationale on why it's worth using HTTPS for everything, even the less sensitive things: https://https.cio.gov/everything/ https://https.cio.gov/eve
by konklone 10y ago
Here's some rationale on why it's worth using HTTPS for everything, even the less sensitive things:
https://https.cio.gov/everything/ https://https.cio.gov/everything/
A lot of people focus on targeted surveillance of people visiting individual sites, but there are so many other threats and issues out there. Bulk modification of unencrypted traffic is a particularly nasty one, and has been seen in the wild, at scale, multiple times.
- shrikant 10y agoA US .gov page recommending the use of HTTPS everywhere, in a thread complaining that another US .gov site recommends using HTTP over HTTPS. I find this hilariously ironic!
- konklone 10y agoThe world is a complicated place, and the US government is a highly decentralized organization. (And in the case of the executive and legislative branches, decentralized very much by design.)