Re: HTTP is just fine

Ben Bucksch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That's something easy to defend against by law. This is an interference 
in (and alteration of) the communication between 2 parties.

In Germany, that might get you in jail for 2 years (and you can't hide 
behind the company).
In the US, when MSIE injected links into webpages, NYTimes sued and won.

Ben

Richard Barnes wrote on 20.11.2015 18:13:
> That seems to miss the point that using HTTP also lets folks like
> Verizon *add* cookies.  As they have in the past.
>
> Sent from my iPhone.  Please excuse brevity.
>
>> On Nov 20, 2015, at 12:09, Ben Bucksch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Aside from speed:
>>
>> HTTPS renders privoxy almost useless in terms of its privacy protection features. It can't remove cookies anymore, it can't remove images, it can't check the page. All that's left to do is a complete all-on or all-off (per host).
>>
>> Ben
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