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It’s not only about privacy, it’s also about the ability for shady public wifi endpoints to inject ads or malware.
by School-Cotton 4y ago
It’s not only about privacy, it’s also about the ability for shady public wifi endpoints to inject ads or malware.
- nayuki 4y agoYup. I was at Atlanta airport and clicked on a bunch of links from the HN front page. All the pages that were sent over unencrypted HTTP got invasive ads injected into them. All the pages over HTTPS were fine.
- pessimizer 4y agoIt's good for everybody to use ssl, but people writing essays about their hobbies aren't responsible for shady public wifi endpoints. At least in FF there's a setting to force you to click through a full page warning to enable visiting a site without ssl. I use it, so I can be aware of my risks.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThey’re not “responsible” in the sense that I don’t think it’s not some kind of moral failing. I’m just pointing out that it’s not true that having TLS on this site wouldn’t be useful to anyone. It would, and the webmaster enabling, despite not required, would be appreciated.