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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by jsmthrowaway on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:31PM (#16337179)
> Nobody is attacked using MITM, which is the only thing HTTPS prevents

The only thing?

I can think of four others off hand. That said, the “only” thing is pretty important in itself.

Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by dingo_bat on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:53PM (#16337274)
It's not important at all for most people. How many times have you been MITM'd? I'll tell you about me: zero. Nobody cares enough about me to do that.

You know what people get bitten by? Hacked servers where the whole website is under a phisher's control or malicious website which downloads malware to your machine or sells your data (eg, Google, Facebook).

Maybe my knowledge is lacking, so please tell me what those 4 things are that you're being so elusive about. I suspect they are also as unlikely as MITM.

Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by roblabla on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:32PM (#16337459)
I've been MITM'd numerous time in the past. I've been MITM by corporate netorks filtering my traffic. I've been MITM'd by scummy and public wifi hotspots trying to inject ads. My own domain provider once MITM'd my domain in a weird attempt to tell me my domain was expiring...

I'm not trying to protect myself from a targeted attack. I'm trying to protect myself from the enormous amount of scummy behavior in this whole industry. When I connect to my bank, I want my data to be secure not only against malicious activity, but negligence and incompetence. This is the threat model that HTTPS-Everywhere protects against.

Sure, people get bitten by viruses and phishes. But let's fix things one step at a time.

Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by dingo_bat on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:44PM (#16337516)
> When I connect to my bank, I want my data to be secure not only against malicious activity, but negligence and incompetence.

What bank do you use that doesn't use https already? Maybe it's time to change your bank rather than force every website in the world to switch to https.

Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:05PM (#16337601)
Of course my office pushes a root certificate to all the devices and Skype for Business breaks unless you’ve trusted that certificate to handle SSL traffic.
Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by eropple on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:05PM (#16337599)
> It's not important at all for most people. How many times have you been MITM'd? I'll tell you about me: zero.

How do you know? What is your groundless, evidence-free assertion worth to you?

> Nobody cares enough about me to do that.

I have detected Firesheeping on coffee shop networks in the past. Guess somebody cared about all the people in there, huh?

The conflation of Google using information collected about you in aggregate to provide advertising services and man-in-the-middle attacks on clients is dishonest, disingenuous, and at this point downright malicious. Stop.

Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by umanwizard on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:29AM (#16338103)
I’ve been MITM’d before.

Usually shitty public WiFi providers injecting ads.