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"Encryption is so expensive!" cries the 1990s

• glitchc 7y ago
  ... you must be a front-end developer.
  • Jonnax 7y ago
    You don't seem to know what you're talking about. 1) A user wouldn't stream Netflix from a data centre in America. It would be local to the country on the Netflix CDN 2) The stream is encrypted. Firstly with whatever DRM the video uses then with TLS. 3) The majority of internet traffic is encrypted. It doesn't matter too much if the transport over fibre isn't. 4) If someone cared about security they would uses VPN where they had control over both sides.
    • siffland 7y ago
      You are correct Netflix goes out of their way to reduce netowrk traffic. https://openconnect.netflix.com/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/ This is a pretty good read, albiet a few years old. https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592590450 https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592...
  • silverfox17 7y ago
    The vast majority of data sent over these cables will be encrypted. It's all normal day-to-day traffic.
  • HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
    woooosh