News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on.

Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by lemming on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:48AM (#5962007)
Ironically enough, they exhort their users to install HTTPS Everywhere and yet it doesn't work on their site.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by sp332 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:38AM (#5962095)
If you change the address in your browser to https:// it serves you the page using their CDN's (Akamai) certificate. HTTPS Everywhere and most browsers reject this because the extremetech.com site is not listed as one of the sites that the certificate covers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself ... by logn on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:49AM (#5962518)
I think that's a good sign. It suggests the writers here are not controlled by a corporate bureaucracy.
[ Parent | on HN ]