"The tricky thing about stuff like this is that the majority of people at protests (and in the general population) are incredibly tech illiterate." Combine thi

"The tricky thing about stuff like this is that the majority of people at protests (and in the general population) are incredibly tech illiterate." Combine this with the fact that even those who are tech literate are in fact illiterate in many ways. As a result, sadly exploitation becomes in many ways trivial and virtually undetectable even when targeted at the literate. This year as an example it was discovered that if you use proxies on iOS or macOS because you are trying to protect your privacy, that opened you up to having your HTTPS communication fully intercepted: http://fusion.net/story/337861/false-connect/ http://fusion.net/story/337861/false-connect/ This flaw dated all the way back to the earliest versions of iOS. What else is out there? Here we are in 2016 and we've not even mastered 22 year old proxy technology when it comes to secure implementations and worse, as a technical community, told people that using anonymizing proxies was a way to protect themselves. There are likely hundreds, if not thousands of ways to intercept and tamper with traffic including HTTPS what we are not aware of yet.