Re:The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
by jauntywundrkind on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:08PM
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Mandating encryption scares me because it limits being able to be seen online to only those with control over DNS.
And there's too many countries that have power to mess with their citizen's DNS resolving, and too many ways for domain names to be taken down.
This is creating a system filled with more absolutes than there should be. And the people doing the encrypting aren't willing to put in any time or effort for other basic affordances. If we could do opportunistic encryption, which isn't really trustworthy (that it's not being mitm) but has many upsides like letting you know you're still talking to the same people for ex - I think if we had an ever more robustening and not ever narrowing stance for what we could do to encrypt the picture of security happening would be much less scary. But we are letting more and more layers of systems have to be involved, with more chokepoints for governments, in a way that seems ossifying & fragile.
And there's too many countries that have power to mess with their citizen's DNS resolving, and too many ways for domain names to be taken down.
This is creating a system filled with more absolutes than there should be. And the people doing the encrypting aren't willing to put in any time or effort for other basic affordances. If we could do opportunistic encryption, which isn't really trustworthy (that it's not being mitm) but has many upsides like letting you know you're still talking to the same people for ex - I think if we had an ever more robustening and not ever narrowing stance for what we could do to encrypt the picture of security happening would be much less scary. But we are letting more and more layers of systems have to be involved, with more chokepoints for governments, in a way that seems ossifying & fragile.