On 2020-04-01 19:38, Henrik K wrote:

>> But pretty much all
>> websites are SSL encrypted these days, so there's nothing to scan
>> unless you do nasty man-in-the-middle decryption.  Everyone has virus
>> scanners on their PC, browsers have all sorts of proctection etc.
>> The days of proxy scanning are long gone, it's just categorizing and
>> blacklisting urls these days..

Well, you'll need MITM anyway if you want to see HTTPS URLs and be able to blacklist them.



> (I sometimes wonder what the *net* improvement in security
> is when HTTPS is used, given that one is now almost totally dependent
> on how secure the Web server is.)

Rather, I wonder what the net security improvement of *HTTPS everywhere* is: if TLS was limited to sites where it's needed/useful, our job would be much easier.




 bye
        av.

P.S.
I'm investigatint your other message about the reload patch.
Thanks.

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