[ungatitolindo]

"is the best way we have to combat pervasive surveillance"

LOL, how fucking naive people are. HTTPS is good, yes. But HTTPS is also being fostered by service providers (Googles, Facebooks and other PRISM supporters) to try decrease revenue from operators and network providers, making sure they stay as random data pipes.

Google is probably the first company out there helping the government and other parties gather all your data, filter it and serve it to whomever is the highest bidder or for whichever obscure political reason.

If Google and the like were so big on privacy they'd do more to ensure that users can directly and privately talk to each other without intermediaries.

[angry-hacker]

I agree. HTTPS is only good against your neighbor script kiddie and your isp injecting ads. Also now good if you want to support https2 features.

It's naive to think it's any good against states or sophisticated attackers.