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Re: Facebook insecure by design

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Oct 23 19:05:56 2011

Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4EA458E3.5090405@unfix.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>

> 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)

Note that Lauren Weinstein has just put out a Privacy Digest posting noting
that the referer behavior differs between https://encrypted.google.com and
https://www.google.com in a way that implies that, again, someone at Google
may not have gotten the Don't Be Evil memo...

  http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000906.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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