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Why should they care, what's anyone going to do about it?

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• criddell 7y ago
  For one, we should all be making sure our websites use https all the time. If all you have is a personal website serving up mostly static content then it might not seem like you need to bother with a certificate but things like the Great Cannon are a great argument that you do. It's not unlike a public health argument for why everybody should be vaccinated.
  • marcosdumay 7y ago
    HTTPS will help your users not getting infected by code that a 3rd party injected on your site. But it will probably not help against the cannon, because the Chinese probably have some china controlled certificate installed.
    • kick 7y ago
      They've done it before, with GitHub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124784
    • gruez 7y ago
      >But it will probably not help against the cannon, because the Chinese probably have some china controlled certificate installed. The whole point of the cannon is that you can leverage the bandwidth of other countries. The CCP already controls the telecoms in China. They don't need to hijack Chinese computers for DDoS attacks when they can directly DDoS from their ISP's backbone.