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by hyper_reality 2051 days ago
Agreed, and furthermore the article calls the privacy arguments "far-fetched" and "dogwhistles", while only tackling a strawman version of the other side's view. The article doesn't for instance investigate the fact that the OCSP requests go over port 80 (i.e. unencrypted HTTP), or discuss the reliability issues that come into play when everyone's computers depend on a single service to have 100% uptime.

Finally, I think the writer should be more careful with their use of the term "dogwhistle". It's a politically-loaded term that isn't used correctly in this piece.