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What's the point of encryption if you don't know what server you're connected to? Somebody could be intercepting your traffic, and you wouldn't realize it.
by jmillikin 16y ago
What's the point of encryption if you don't know what server you're connected to? Somebody could be intercepting your traffic, and you wouldn't realize it.
- amalcon 16y agoThe point is to stop one particular class of attacker: the one that's passively sniffing and archiving network traffic while trying to remain invisible (and thus isn't actually altering the traffic profile). This is a benefit (over in-the-clear HTTP), but Firefox and others effectively tell users that it's more dangerous than regular HTTP.