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by viraptor 4070 days ago
> The most obvious example is that you don't want to bog down your countrys civil defence agency with SSL/TLS protocol negotiations, if their website is being deluged by people trying to survive a natural disaster.

On the other hand, I don't want China to bog down some contry's civil defence (or any other website) by DDOSing it, injecting JS into unencrypted baidu traffic. Which one is causing more problems right now?
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phkamp 4070 days ago
Right now, the biggest problem is the unlimited invasion of privacy done by transnational companies accountable to nobody.

NSA could, in theory, be reigned in by the government, but nobody in the world has the power to stop the transnational companies deconstruction of everybodys indentities.

For instance, I have never agreed to FaceBook's terms and conditions, but they track me, like everybody else.

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