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But it uses ajax.googleapis.com. And since it's reporting on the NSA, it's worth being that extra bit paranoid.
by 93934994343 13y ago
But it uses ajax.googleapis.com. And since it's reporting on the NSA, it's worth being that extra bit paranoid.
- f_salmon 13y agoThat's that 1 thing I just don't get: Everybody's (rightfully) complaining about mass surveillance and what do apparently all web devs do (the people who actually understand tech and know what all this means)? They include endless scripts and background requests (which of course track everybody) to CDNs and whatnot in every single website, instead of simply hosting their stuff themselves and using http://piwik.org/ http://piwik.org/ to get their user stats. It's really, really stupid.
- DanBC 13y agoSomeone on HN recently commented about how they'd use customer details (people buying games) and check them out on Facebook. I suggested it was a bit creepy. Other people were surprised I thought it was creepy and thought it was normal behaviour. I would link but search is unusably broken on mobile.
- j_s 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165109
- newman314 13y agoNot only that. No HSTS. Strange redirect to https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ instead of just hosting at theintercept.org.
- mikecb 13y agoAnd the cipher list is crap: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=theintercept.org https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=theintercept....