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I feel that this everything over HTTPS trend is a scam, I don't know how or why yet, I just feel it.

Perhaps it makes the surveillance tooling more uniform and easier to develop/maintain.

The argument that HTTPS is always available and not filtered is just wrong, anyone who has experience working with large corporations knows that clients use local * certificates and everything is decrypted by the firewall and then re-encrypted. Making HTTPS slow af and sometimes plain broken.

I guess someone will implement a full HTTPS stack in js and announce HTTPS over HTTP to go around this "problem".




> The argument that HTTPS is always available and not filtered is just wrong, anyone who has experience working with large corporations knows that clients use local * certificates and everything is decrypted by the firewall and then re-encrypted. Making HTTPS slow af and sometimes plain broken.

Yeah, and implementing everything over https is just going to make things harder or impossible to filter. There's a reason that large corporations block certain things, so if they get reimplemented over http, that will just be a security hole. It would be nice if an actual encrypted DNS protocol was created.




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