FBI Rails Against Encryption – Redirects HTTP to HTTPS on Own Site

Posted by Alupis on Friday November 20, 2015 @06:04PM
from the self-post dept.

The FBI has been railing against encryption of most/all forms as-of late. However, it appears even their own website is using the dreaded encryption by forcing all HTTP connections to redirect into HTTPS:

http://www.fbi.gov --> https://www.fbi.gov

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Re:FBI Rails Against Encryption – Redirects HTTP to HTTPS on... by giaour on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:11PM (#10604982)

It's part of an OMB push to use HTTPS on all federal websites.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-...

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Re:FBI Rails Against Encryption – Redirects HTTP to HTTPS on... by anon6_ on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:21PM (#10605018)

How is this hypocritical? They'd get the raw request one way or another.

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Re:FBI Rails Against Encryption – Redirects HTTP to HTTPS on... by insoluble on Saturday November 21, 2015 @03:37PM (#10607941)

It's hypocritical because it shows that they don't want random people reading data going to and from their website but yet they advocate that others should accept random snoopers.

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Re:FBI Rails Against Encryption – Redirects HTTP to HTTPS on... by woah on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:39AM (#10615142)

This is silly. They have no problem with https, as the root CAs are compromised. If you think that ssl is secure against governments, you are wrong.

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