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Re: Facebook insecure by design

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Sun Oct 23 14:13:07 2011

Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:11:47 +0200
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "steve pirk [egrep]" <steve@pirk.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no07G3hTKA5u+bGiKrL2AW94L-tf8o7ac2tygu+GvLKqiog@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

[hmmm this subject is not really ops now is it...]

On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
> Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if
> you enable it.

(or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite
some time already)

> If anybody on this thread uses gmail com a you really ought to take a look
> at google plus. Compare the way user privacy is the primary objective,
> versus the share everything by default of facebook.

Since when is encrypting a transport (in this case using TLS/SSL) 'user
privacy' ?

The only thing it is protecting is intermediate networks sniffing or
even modifying the traffic and more importantly for the company who gets
all your private information: their revenue stream when they sell that data.

And really, giving all your private emails to a company that explicitly
reads them (even if it is 'automated') to advertise to you and then
mentioning 'user privacy' is just ridiculous ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen


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