Snowden on the Twitters

[John Young]

>btw, I accessed your link over httpS and it serves http, the
>implications of which are clear. From the source:
>
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HTTPS has become a fetish, maybe always was. It serves as an end 
point fig leaf,
simulates privacy and infosec, but does not protect visitors from the 
full stream of
access to their traffic end to end. Same for shallow, exculpatory 
privacy policy
always "taken very seriously" laughingly. So encryption and 
anonymization provide
decorous couture of genitals while leaving the rest bare assed.

Web sites are insecure by the very design of the Internet which 
allows operators
and administrators full access to traffic "so it can be maintained 
properly." That
is policed and spied behind misleading signs of safety like HTTPS and privacy
policy. Every web site operator knows this and keeps it quiet to avoid scaring
away visitors. So they adopt the latest fig leafs and earnestly promote them
as essential while hacking and spying predators continue to ravage 
the Internet
as if the planet was created for the benefit of warmakers and their engineers
and suppliers.