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Re:Mozilla VPN by r3trohack3r on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:38PM (#23569782)
HTTPS protects content. Content requires a warrant in the united states.

The bulk metadata programs, as far as we know, only collect metadata. Which two IP addresses communicated, the routes they took, the size of the payloads, etc. are all "metadata".

HTTPS, AFAIK, does not solve this.

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Re:Mozilla VPN by ccktlmazeltov on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:35PM (#23576062)
Using a VPN adds indirection but can give you a sense of false security as well.

Metadata is obviously the least important data to analyze, but for example a VPN does not hide the size of payloads. TLS 1.3 do addresses that and let's you randomly pad messages but I don't think anybody use that.

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