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by interurban 3866 days ago
The probability of interception is massively higher than miniscule, see the recent wide scale hijacking of Chinese traffic to DDOS Github or ISPs inserting ads and tracking into responses.

These types of attacks have been hypothetical for a long time, but we're starting to see real world impacts of not using https, and they aren't trivial.
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StavrosK 3866 days ago
I made an events site for my city:

http://www.tithess.gr/

The Greek government inserting ads into that site is very low on my list of concerns, but the additional 200-400ms on the first page load is much higher up.

Am I correct in understanding your point as "there can be no conceivable case where two fewer TCP roundtrips would be worth the speed gain over the decreased security"?

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