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> "It's a real time-portal to a pre-security internet." It wasn't that long ago where the network traffic of every website was transmitted in the clear via htt
by russellbeattie 1mo ago
> "It's a real time-portal to a pre-security internet."
It wasn't that long ago where the network traffic of every website was transmitted in the clear via http, not https. Literally anyone at a coffee shop could listen to the WiFi network and see everything being sent and received in plain text. GMail didn't move to https until 2010, and I think it was one of the first webmail sites to do it. Browsers only started flagging non-https sites just in the past few years.
It already seems far fetched, honestly.