[siddhartpai]

It could be like leaving your bank account password in the open. Your bank account password could be sniffed probably very easily by someone who is connected to your network. Now imagine somebody exposes some way to get the password of your home network from the google servers.

[siddhartpai]

With all these NSA revelations and Richard Stallman being right all along. there is no such thing as being secure or encrypted unless you have encrypted it yourself.

[rimantas]

And built your own hardware and installed your own cell towers. And control all the servers, because even if they are made with 100% open-source code, someone could just modify it. Also you must be sure nobody else has read access to it, because being 100% open source does not mean "no-one can read it".

I don't see how trusted networking can be possible in stallmanic world.

[phaer]

If a random attacker in your local network can do that easily you should talk to your bank about SSL or change to one that actually knows basic internet technology.

SSL should be assumed as broken for defence against government surveillance but it still keeps the most common attackers out.

[joe_the_user]

SSL depends on dns and so is broken when someone has compromised your local router. Yeah, that's a pretty bad weakness but it's just sitting there and indeed that's what the NSA supposedly used against Petrobras.