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0 pointsjlbooker2y ago0 comments

I guess you like those cookie warnings that pollute the Internet these days? Because this would be cookie warnings all over again. Any site that's reasonably popular uses a CDN to increase scalability, improve performance, and add reliability. Half the Internet would need a new pop-up warning that a CDN is in use. The last thing we need is yet another pop-up when a page loads....

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edandersen2y ago

It doesn't need to be a pop up. Just behave like a HTTP site ("not secure" warning) when you could be MITM'd between yourself and the entity you think you are communicating with.

If it turned out "End to end" encrypted chat went through a third party that even transiently had access to the plaintext version of the chat (like how Cloudflare works) you'd be apoplectic.

tick_tock_tick2y ago

It's impossible to know if a third party had access to the plain text. Hell even Cloudflare can be setup with actual end to end encryption where they can never see the contexts of the traffic. Most users don't want that as they want CDN features that require unencoding the data.

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edandersen2y ago

It doesn't need to be a pop up. Just behave like a HTTP site ("not secure" warning) when you could be MITM'd between yourself and the entity you think you are communicating with.

If it turned out "End to end" encrypted chat went through a third party that even transiently had access to the plaintext version of the chat (like how Cloudflare works) you'd be apoplectic.

tick_tock_tick2y ago

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