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To play the devil's advocate and being very cynic (which is always fair game IMHO): This change has the effect of pushing even mundane websites to use SSL, and
by omeid2 8y ago
To play the devil's advocate and being very cynic (which is always fair game IMHO):
This change has the effect of pushing even mundane websites to use SSL, and so locking out corporate-level and other players from analysing web usage, or at least making them less effective, which enhances and increases the Google's "web scale" analysis dominant position even more.
- RandomInteger4 8y agoNani? What does https have to do with analyzing web usage? Whatever that means exactly.
- ealhad 8y agoWhen using HTTPS, our ISP can only see the server you're connecting to, not what you're doing.
- omeid2 8y agoISPs (almost all of them) and lots of corporate (school, business, university) firewalls run analysers on websites and aggregate that data. This data can provide a fair bit of powerful insight and intelligence into things like change of trends and growth of businesses.
- exikyut 8y agoI have this exact problem on my LAN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540111 In order to analyze my own information/data, I have to break HTTPS (setup a proxy MITM box, install CAs on all devices), then put it back together again securely enough (secure++ the MITM box) to be confident in doing my banking etc. Argh.
- nsgi 8y agoWhat stops you either using a browser extension or analysing encrypted data sent between IPs?
- swebs 8y ago>locking out corporate-level and other players from analysing web usage That sounds a lot like wiretapping to me. How did this not already fall under wiretapping laws?