On 17/11/2013 12:51, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Indeed. A "solution" in which caches, proxies, content filtering
>> and possibly CDNs don't work is not going to be deployed on any Internet
>> on this planet.
>
> Er, be careful here. It's certainly true that a solution that prevents
> CDNs, caches, proxies and content filtering from working won't see rapid
> uptake among providers that depend on these capabilities. However, there is
> a rather substantial long tail of web sites that do not depend on these
> capabilities and never will, and it is these very web sites for which the
> ability to do various kinds of passive tracking will be most useful, because
> they say the most about you.
Well yes, but the hypothesis seemed to be TLS on *every* HTTP connection.
That doesn't seem to fly, is my point (and, I think, Phill's).
> Also, to completely contradict that point, facebook with https enabled still
> uses a CDN, so the theory that https prevents CDNs from working is apparently
> wrong anyway.
I said "possibly" because I wasn't sure. Maybe somebody can explain
how it works and how the associated trust model works?
Brian
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