- From: Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:59:48 -0800
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Public TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com> wrote: > [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NoSnooping.html """This takes a lot of server CPU cycles, making server farms more expensive. It would slow the user's computer. It would effectively slow down the whole net.""" That was not true in 2009, and it's certainly not true now. """It also prevents the use of HTTP proxies, which currently help the efficiency of web access.""" As discussed earlier in this thread, HTTPS requires clients to knowingly opt in to caching, transforming, or spying proxies. But such proxies are still possible. HTTPS makes them prove some value. Overall, TBL seems to be saying that people shouldn't spy on the net, so that we can enjoy many social goods. Among those goods, he seems to place the ability to not have to adopt HTTPS. Unfortunately, we don't like in so innocent a world, and HTTPS is the bare minimum protection against tampering and spying.
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