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The Federal Government purges data that was non-encrypted after a number of years. The Federal Government retains a copy of all https-encrypted communications
by slackfan 4y ago
The Federal Government purges data that was non-encrypted after a number of years.
The Federal Government retains a copy of all https-encrypted communications indefinitely on the understanding that the encryption may be broken at some point.
The push to HTTPS was gleefully supported by the US federal government. HTTPS is not a panacea, and is generally useless for most non-sales applications.
- Xorlev 4y agoYou're neglecting to consider the most important aspect of HTTPS, even if you don't care about privacy or believe the encryption will eventually be broken: integrity. HTTPS significantly raises the bar on MITM attacks, such as ISPs adding or replacing ads with their own. It also prevents folks sitting in the same coffeeshop as you from snooping. Calling "generally useless" is incredibly uncharitable.
- slackfan 4y agoConsidering that HTTPS completely and utterly fails to solve its stated purpose of cryptographic verification of content, it's basically security theater, the last vestiges of which have been completely broken by LetsEncrypt. But I'm a luddite who also thinks we shouldn't have gone beyond HTML 4.01 as a spec, and that JS in the browser is a pox upon the web.
- sneak 4y agoThis is not accurate.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoAll encrypted communications are treated as foreign origin regardless of its true origin. The US government uses this twist of illogic to justify their domestic collection.
- WebbWeaver 4y agoSorry, do you know where I can find information about this?