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Your entire comment is paragraphs of grasping at straws. > The other thing is the usual argument about oppressive governments, etc... Well, if want to protect
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo ago
Your entire comment is paragraphs of grasping at straws.
> The other thing is the usual argument about oppressive governments, etc... Well, if want to protect yourself, TLS won't save you, you will be given away by your IP address, they may not see exactly what you are looking at, but the simple fact you are connecting to a server containing sensitive data may be evidence enough. Protecting your identity is what networks like TOR are for, and you can hide a plain text server behind the TOR network, which would act as the privacy layer.
A huge ‘citation needed’ for this whole paragraph. Just admit that you don’t care about this use case and move on. Don’t present a contrived and completely justified hypothetical where oppressive governments behave exactly in a way that happens to mean that there’s only room for the technologies that you personally are into.
You’ve completely departed from reality. It’s not 2004 anymore.
- GuB-42 7mo agoHonestly, yeah, I don't care about this use case. I just mentioned that because I expected someone to say "but privacy...", because privacy and encryption go hand in hand. And my argument is that the encryption we usually think of in the context of the web is TLS, and it is not a good fit in that context. The goal here is to publish information for everyone to see, it is not secret messaging, what you may want to protect is your identity. There are networks especially designed for this, and you are better off using these, but if you are not, then I believe that accessing a HTTP website through an anonymizing proxy (like TOR) is better at protecting your identity than relying on the TLS layer of HTTPS or Gemini.