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The CIA’s website was a very early adopter of HTTPS across the board, for this very reason. Most of the site hosted general information about the agency and it
by bigfatkitten 1y ago
The CIA’s website was a very early adopter of HTTPS across the board, for this very reason.
Most of the site hosted general information about the agency and its functions, but they also had a section where you could provide information.
- kstrauser 1y agoGreat point, and an excellent illustration. If it was trivial for an adversary to see that some people were visiting http://cia.gov/visitor-center-and-gift-shop-hours http://cia.gov/visitor-center-and-gift-shop-hours, but others were visiting https://cia.gov/[we-can't-see-this-part https://cia.gov/[we-can't-see-this-part], they'd know exactly who to concentrate their rubber hose cryptography efforts on.