Doing HTTPS everywhere in the .gov space

[William Woodruff]

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I, for one, think that security of any sort is a great improvement.

There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious when handing data over to
the government, but you might as well be guaranteed your
privacy/security *while* doing it.

William

On 11/18/2014 02:23 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
>> I meant USGOV protects USGOV. (Although not USGOV employees per
>> se...) Cybersecurity wise USGOV probably doesn't/hardly need
>> HTTPS, depending on the abilities of adversaries.
> 
> Of course. US govt using https in their stupid propaganda websites
> is irrelant. What is weird is that some US govt employee bothered
> to advertise it here. Is he clueless? Was he trolling?
> 
> 
> I wasn't trolling. I've been a member of this list, and paying
> close attention to the field, since well before I joined the US
> government (which happened back in May).
> 
> Before this, I worked for 5 years at a relatively adversarial
> non-profit group focused on government transparency, called the
> Sunlight Foundation.
> 
> I also did personal work on furthering encryption and drawing
> attention to government surveillance:
> 
> https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free 
> https://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court 
> https://twitter.com/fisacourt
> 
> I still work on them, and stuff like it, in my personal capacity.
> I'm on the record in all kinds of places, in my personal capacity,
> supporting what Edward Snowden did and pushing for technical
> changes and policy reform to curtail surveillance.
> 
> I completely expect (and find welcome and appropriate) high levels
> of skepticism for anything the US government does. All I can tell
> you is where I'm coming from, and the actions my team is taking.
> 
> In my government capacity, when https://letsencrypt.org is
> operational next year, I hope to get as many .gov domains to use
> their certificates as I can.
> 
> -- Eric
> 
> 
> 
> -- konklone.com <https://konklone.com> | @konklone 
> <https://twitter.com/konklone>
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