> That's certainly a problem, but most people are using trustworthy ISPs (at least in this sense). Comcast seems unlikely to try to steal your bank password, an

> That's certainly a problem, but most people are using trustworthy ISPs (at least in this sense). Comcast seems unlikely to try to steal your bank password, and Verizon is unlikely to try to harvest your HN cookies. You got it! Really when you think about it, why do we even bother with crypto on the Internet in the first place? It's not like your data is traveling over a series of networks and nodes with different owners/operators that you don't even know and certainly haven't vetted for trustworthiness. That'd be crazy.