Re: Maximalism Is A Better Word

On 2024-05-03, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

  With HTTP, it's a cakewalk for the client-side to analyze traffic
  and suppress unwanted content. Insofar as HTTPS makes such measures
  more difficult, it can actually reduce security to a certain degree.
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  Moreover, HTTPS could engender a false sense of security.
  (As you wrote.)

HTTPS has also been used for censorship, as the certificate authorities
are centrally controlled, they can be used to take sites down.