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> A lot happened in a very short time after the Snowden revelations. HTTPS became expected and Let's encrypt launched And yet the proliferation of the attentio
by Nextgrid 3y ago
> A lot happened in a very short time after the Snowden revelations. HTTPS became expected and Let's encrypt launched
And yet the proliferation of the attention economy and "growth & engagement" means that in practice, you no longer need to care about breaking HTTPS if you can just tap the analytics/marketing/adtech providers and can get data from 90% of the internet since these trackers litter pretty much every single webpage nowadays.
As a bonus, you don't even need to fund or maintain the interception infrastructure, since the adtech provider is doing that for you for free.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> you no longer need to care about breaking HTTPS if you can just tap the analytics/marketing/adtech providers Right. It's why the LEO's "Going Dark" FUD was complete and utter crap. LEO has more info on us than at any time in history. However, none of that negates how real progress followed Snowden and that bad actors lost their forward momentum. At least until the press lost interest and then bad actors resumed their progress against us. News orgs not caring is 98% of how we got here. As far as we let press off the hook, we're earning what we get.