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Cost of what, exactly? An (free) TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt?

• stickfigure 8y ago
  I'm guessing that when you start snooping on the everyday mobile activity of 1.3 billion citizens you hit the kind of scaling problems that usually only Facebook and Google see.
  • movedx 8y ago
    There's probably (simple/cheap) ways to overcome that, but I see your point.
  • gscott 8y ago
    Considering China records and stores millions of hours of video data among other things they are probably getting pretty good at snooping.
• grkvlt 8y ago
  Cost of servers to handle millions of TLS connection initialisations and HTTPS stream decryptions, versus simple plain-text streaming...
  • movedx 8y ago
    TLS isn't the only option, though. You could use TLS on setup to share a pre-computed secret between the device and the remote server, then bin the TLS connection. After that, encrypt and forward over HTTP. Laziness isn't an excuse.
    • grkvlt 8y ago
      FYI, the mechanism you describe is (essentially) how TLS works...