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Yeesh, as someone who has had to troubleshoot more than a few times HTTP payloads that were mangled by shitty ISP software to inject ads or notifications I woul
by lreeves 8y ago
Yeesh, as someone who has had to troubleshoot more than a few times HTTP payloads that were mangled by shitty ISP software to inject ads or notifications I would love HTTPS as a default to prevent tampering. I get the arguments against it, but I have 100% seen Rogers in Canada fuck up HTTP payloads regardless of MIME types while rolling out "helpful" bandwidth notifications. Signatures will tell you yes this is corrupt but end-to-end encryption means that the person in the middle can't even try.
- fyjvd90 8y agoLikewise, integrity of the download is the primary reason I’ve switched downloads to HTTPS too. The argument that singed downloads is enough fails to address what the user is supposed to do after the integrity has failed? A redownload can result in the same tampered with file. This isn’t hypothetical btw, it happens in the real world, I’ve had ISPs in Ireland and South Africa damage downloads due to their injections and users don’t care if it’s their ISP, they get pissed off at you unfortunately.