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Which is it - HTTPS for for everything, or ban it? Or is it that they think only they should be able to use it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636487 ht
by gentleman11 6y ago
Which is it - HTTPS for for everything, or ban it? Or is it that they think only they should be able to use it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636487
- austincheney 6y agoYou are falsely assuming government agencies have a shared set of priorities in common agreement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
- nend 6y agoYou make it sound like the US government is one homogenous voice with one opinion. A republican senator introduced one bill that affects HTTPS, while a completely separate non-legislative government group is advocating for using HTTPS on the sites they control. >Which is it It's both, there's two separate groups advocating for two separate things here.
- happythomist 6y agoThere's a pretty significant difference between "no HTTPS" and "mandatory decryption for consumer electronic devices with a warrant", even if the latter is still a bad policy.
- gentleman11 6y agoThe author of the article (in the hn story) I linked claims that the legislation in question bans https
- happythomist 6y agoI don't see where the author makes that claim. Mandatory decryption of HTTPS traffic is not a ban on HTTPS.
- delecti 6y agoThe government being able to use HTTPS on their sites is not logically inconsistent with a requirement that the government be able to get through any encryption.