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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by cma on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:21PM (#32977499)
Comcast injects data into plain http pages, altering them when they see fit (they put in a datacap warning into the text of the page).
Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by gkbrk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:24PM (#32977521)
If Comcast is doing something wrong, why does everyone else need to do something about it? If Comcast stops routing packets on port 433, should everyone else stop using it as well?
Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by Gigachad on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:22PM (#32977950)
ISPs are evil and untrusted. That’s just a fact. The solution is to not allow them to see or modify anything.
Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by stiray on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:54AM (#32979859)
Other IT corporations are also evil and untrusted.

But no one cares if they can look into all your mails and documents (Microsoft, Google), track you all over the web, see where you are going, which flight you are taking,...

The important is that ISPs are evil and untrusted. facepalm

Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by staticassertion on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:53AM (#32980553)
> But no one cares if they can look into all your mails and documents (Microsoft, Google), track you all over the web, see where you are going, which flight you are taking,...

I don't think I go a single day without reading posts complaining about exactly that, so obviously people do care.

Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by Gigachad on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:16AM (#32980014)
ISPs are the most blatantly scummy of the lot. They log everything, usually by government requirements, sell it to anyone, give it to the government without a warrant, inject adverts and js in to unprotected requests, and all kinds of malicious things.

They are easily eliminated from the picture. One less party with access to your data the better. There is really _no_ good argument for not having HTTPS on any site unless its some very rare case like an intranet site.

Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by msh on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:50AM (#32981159)
Some places the ISP's are monopolies, or duopolies. Even with current tech giants you have many options.
Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by cortesoft on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:57PM (#32978482)
This is like saying we shouldn't use encryption just because there are bad guys stealing our data... just because hackers do something wrong, why does everyone else need to do something about it?

We have to do a lot of things because bad guys do bad things. What is the alternative? Pretend they don't exist?