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What's the point of encrypting the sites in China anyway? I mean obviously everything you do online in China is tracked and not only that but shared - so is it
by taf2 8y ago
What's the point of encrypting the sites in China anyway? I mean obviously everything you do online in China is tracked and not only that but shared - so is it maybe better in China to just not encrypt to safe on the additional power consumption? Really good green policy in China :D
- zokier 8y agoState actors are not the only threats
- taf2 8y agoI means it’s more about local corruption in China right which is driven by perverse economic pressures that come from an overbearing centerialized government power.
- supertrope 8y agoIt's doing something. After Google deployed TLS and obviously did not obey government data requests the government blocked Google domains entirely. Kind of like how Russia blocked Wikipedia entirely because TLS does not allow fine grained per page blocking.