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Re:Is Google overreaching by forcing me to use TLS? by XorNot on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:12PM (#7481267)
Plausible deniability is frequently more useful then encryption. The probability of someone messing with my packets in-flight is low. But TLS creates the problem that you are possibly then able to prove that the packets I sent came from me.
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Re:Is Google overreaching by forcing me to use TLS? by gcp on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:13PM (#7481278)
This problem doesn't exist on the client side, no? It's not like we provide client certificates when using HTTPS/TLS. You're authenticating (typically) with passwords which unfortunately were stolen when your (random service goes here) account got hacked.
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