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More especially since they hijack HTTPS sessions. I always thought that playing MITM and caching secure sessions created a strong incentive to behave badly.

by guns 16y ago

yread 16y ago
They don't do that: from http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/ http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/ Your privacy is important Even when Turbo is enabled, encrypted traffic does not go through our compression servers. This means that when you are on a SSL site, we bypass these traffic and let you communicate with the SSL site directly. Opera generates statistics of the usage of Opera Turbo, but these are aggregated numbers and no information can be linked to a single user. Opera does not store any users’ private information.
- guns 16y ago
  Presumably that is a feature of the desktop version? http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#connection http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#connection "Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and — for example — paypal.com or my bank?" "Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the webpage. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote web server is possible. If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile."
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- plorkyeran 16y ago
  Turbo and Mini aren't the same thing; Turbo mostly just compresses everything and lossily recompresses images to make them smaller, while Mini outright doesn't have a local HTML rendering engine.
Tomek_ 16y ago
Opera Mini tells you about that (and that the connection isn't actually protected) and discourage you from continue when you try to enter any https site.
famrey 16y ago
"they hijack HTTPS sessions" Trolling much? They aren't hijacking anything. Opera Mini is a thin client (which lets it run on just about any phone, including old and crappy ones), so they have no choice but to pass everything through the rendering engine on their servers.

More especially since they hijack HTTPS sessions. I always thought that playing MITM and caching secure sessions created a strong incentive to behave badly.

by guns 16y ago

More especially since they hijack HTTPS sessions. I always thought that playing MITM and caching secure sessions created a strong incentive to behave badly.

yread 16y ago

They don't do that: from http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/ http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/03/13/ Your privacy is important Even when Turbo is enabled, encrypted traffic does not go through our compression servers. This means that when you are on a SSL site, we bypass these traffic and let you communicate with the SSL site directly. Opera generates statistics of the usage of Opera Turbo, but these are aggregated numbers and no information can be linked to a single user. Opera does not store any users’ private information.

guns 16y ago
Presumably that is a feature of the desktop version? http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#connection http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#connection "Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and — for example — paypal.com or my bank?" "Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the webpage. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote web server is possible. If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile."
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plorkyeran 16y ago
Turbo and Mini aren't the same thing; Turbo mostly just compresses everything and lossily recompresses images to make them smaller, while Mini outright doesn't have a local HTML rendering engine.

Tomek_ 16y ago

Opera Mini tells you about that (and that the connection isn't actually protected) and discourage you from continue when you try to enter any https site.

famrey 16y ago

"they hijack HTTPS sessions" Trolling much? They aren't hijacking anything. Opera Mini is a thin client (which lets it run on just about any phone, including old and crappy ones), so they have no choice but to pass everything through the rendering engine on their servers.