WTFoolishness?
HTTPS
has nothing to do with safe content. If you want to host a virus,
hosting it over https doesn't block it or change the fact that it's a
virus. If somebody gets your password or gets into your server and drops
malware in your web pages for you, encrypting it won't change the fact
that it's malware.
HTTPS can be used to help ensure identity, by making it harder to put a man-in-the-middle and send you, the reader, to http://defining-computers.blogsp0t.com instead of http://defining-computers.blogspot.com. (Did you see that was blogsp0t instead of blogspot?) I won't explain the weaknesses in HTTPS here, but I can tell you that even that is not all that strong.
And encrypting everything actually gives an attacker more surface area to attack the encryption.HTTPS is a speed bump, or, at best, a low wall. That's the best it can give you.
Proper use of HTTPS encryption is to limit it to the pages where it is needed, and to identity tokens on otherwise unsecured ordinary information-type pages (like blogs).
I just posted a post in my political blog about the evils of mocking, but --
I use nothing but plain text and a few simple images on my blogs. Okay, on some of my blogs, I let Google put their advertisements up, since I can't afford to pay Google for the use.
Plain text, simple images, and Google's own ads.
No other content. If there's dangerous content, it would have to be Google's ads.
And I am letting Blogspot host the blogs -- again, because I can't afford to host them on my own server. If there's some problem with identity, it's not me handling my on-line identity, it's Blogspot/Google.
Okay, I guess that's why they want me to let them force my blogs to HTTPS. They think it makes things simpler for them.
Anyway, I am turning on automatic HTTPS redirect for all my blogs, not because it's a good idea, but because I don't have money or time to host my blogs myself, the right way. And I don't want Google warning innocent bystanders that I'm dangerous.
(Whether the ideas I expound on my blogs are dangerous or not is another problem.)
That creates so many conflicting feelings in me!!! Anger that we have to toadie to the billionaire owners of these tech things just to exist in today's society, laughter at the irony, sadness for those who are left out of society, mourning for those evil people who choose to exploit and endanger others with no consequences, and for those who are exploited...so much pain involved - and yet what can we do?
ReplyDeleteOnly thing I can think of is to preach the gospel the best we can.
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