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Click-bait title. The article itself even says "Comcast is only currently using their javascript injection ability to serve customer account related information
by aftbit 10y ago
Click-bait title. The article itself even says "Comcast is only currently using their javascript injection ability to serve customer account related information". Also, Private Internet Access is far from a disinterested party here.
While we should all be outraged that AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and the like are MITMing our HTTP connections, nobody should be surprised at their ability to do so. In this post-privacy world, only strong end-to-end encryption can provide security. Also, don't forget that PIA and other VPNs are just as able to do this as Comcast.
- dvdhnt 10y ago"Post-privacy"; a little dramatic don't you think? > The concept of universal individual privacy is a modern construct primarily associated with Western culture, British and North American in particular, and remained virtually unknown in some cultures until recent times. According to some researchers, this concept sets Anglo-American culture apart even from Western European cultures such as French or Italian. Most cultures, however, recognize the ability of individuals to withhold certain parts of their personal information from wider society—closing the door to one's home, for example. > The distinction or overlap between secrecy and privacy is ontologically subtle, which is why the word "privacy" is an example of an untranslatable lexeme, and many languages do not have a specific word for "privacy". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
- mindslight 10y agoI think it'd be more fitting to call it "post-decency".