On 26 August 2014 15:29, <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com> wrote: > I’m not sure i understand *why* https should be required everywhere, since > risk management should take into account the value of what is at risk > versus the costs but that is a different discussion. Nor I. If it is an overreaction then that overreaction can be analysed. Typically it is said that overreactions are default positions held on to in the face of some *imagined* anxieties. And that they hide what the anxiety really is. I think the real anxiety, in this context, is about identity and data ownership, problems that universal adoption of https obscure rather than alleviate. The problems of identity and data ownership are not ubiquitous and universally present. They need case by case solutions. But the sense of a threat in that area is a sense of a universal threat, which really comes from how capitalism is working out in this area. By which I mean a scrabble to own, access or mediate data by large players makes it seem as if data must be owned, accessed or mediated enmass. Hence the sense of universal threat. Adam Saltiel
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