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by rvern 12y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910637 . Subresource integrity can protect against changes done on the server, while TLS can protect against changes done by a man-in-the-middle. They protect against different
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by rvern 12y ago
That is not what subresource integrity is for. Transport Layer Security guarantees, among other things, that the content really comes from the server it should come from¹. This means that the content was not manipulated by a man-in-the-midd
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by rvern 12y ago
or not (to be)?
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by rvern 12y ago
It guarantees that the text you are seeing really comes from that website, that it hasn’t been tampered with by an actor between you and the server. This means that Internet service providers and others between you and the website cannot in
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by rvern 12y ago
The Wikipedia article is already up-to-date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India#3...
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by rvern 12y ago
I didn’t know packets leaked this much information… Thank you for mentioning this.
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by rvern 12y ago
I doubt it is possible to determine the exact version, or even the browser (though the accept headers might leak it), without JavaScript. Thus NoScript fixes that problem. You are right that this gives more information to a determined perso
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by rvern 12y ago
In Mozilla Firefox, you can create the setting general.useragent.override (it doesn’t exist by default) and set its value to “Firefox” to get a very generic user agent string that websites will still recognize as Firefox and not block as a