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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by dane-pgp on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:38AM (#18967155)
The entities I'm worried about have bought off-the-shelf surveillance tools which record the HTTP requests associated with each IP/MAC address. This is a minimum viable product for governments and ISPs (not to mention businesses, like hotels and coffee shops), and it is reasonable to think that such a system is deployed on orders of magnitude more networks than a system that tries to infer Debian package downloads from counting bytes of HTTPS traffic.

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