On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 08:53, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Daniel Feenberg <[email protected]> writes:
> > Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public?
> 
> Watering hole attacks.

Watering hole attack describes the *site* being compromised because it's
popular and you know the target(s) will go there. HTTPS is irrelevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_Hole

-- 
  Mark Felder
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