Re: HTTP is just fine

Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > If you deliver your "information only" webpage over HTTP you have no
> > guarantee that the data you send is the data the user gets. This is a
> > very real issue with intermediates injecting all kinds of things into
> > content (e.g. adding ads or replacing ads or injecting some kind of
> > javascript doing whatever).  
> 
> And this is a real issue.  When traveling I've seen javascript being 
> injected in site that I know don't have javascript or for a domain that 
> usually doesn't show up.  Https sites were never affected and just worked.

And yet mozilla have reduced the control over javascript in their
browser without about:config!!! which is the real issue and nothing to
do with https. Also, a VPN solution would be the right solution for
insecure networks. That makes it a poor excuse for justifying https
everywhere..

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