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To the 90%: if you've got nothing to hide then why are you encrypting your traffic?
by jancsika 7y ago
To the 90%: if you've got nothing to hide then why are you encrypting your traffic?
- ravenstine 7y agoComcast.
- philg_jr 7y agoProbably sarcasm but...why shut the door when you're in the bathroom?
- judge2020 7y agoOr "why lock your car doors when stealing and hotwiring is a crime"? Sure, people have convertibles and jeeps with no doors, but they also won't leave anything valuable out in the open.
- catalogia 7y agoI like this analogy. We all know what goes on inside a bathroom, it's not really a secret. But it is private. There is a difference between secrecy and privacy, and this analogy captures the difference well. I think I first heard the analogy in Cory Doctorow's presentation The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing, which was ironically given at Google. I highly recommend people watch it.
- p98uihser 7y agoBecause I can't connect directly to news.ycombinator.com, my request is first proxied through verizon and comcast and others. Without HTTPS it is super easy for them (or lesser known snooper) to add malware or whatever they want to the messages. It's useful because of the data integrity verification, not the encryption.
- paulddraper 7y agoSorry about the downvotes. Poe's law is a bitch.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoBecause privacy is a basic human right and not a privilege
- cesarb 7y agoBecause I know broken middleboxes will meddle with the traffic unless it's encrypted and authenticated.
- rhacker 7y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=nothing+to+hide+hacker+news&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS765US765&oq=nothing+to+hide+hacker+news&aqs=chrome..69i57.4608j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=nothing+to+hide+hacker+news&...