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Re:The habits of practically unhackable people by kaybe on Friday March 27, 2015 @09:25PM (#9280084)
There are addons for this: https://www.eff.org/Https-everywhere
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Re:The habits of practically unhackable people by TTPrograms on Friday March 27, 2015 @09:26PM (#9280089)
So hypothetically if you didn't care about people sniffing your non-https traffic there's little to be gained from a VPN? Besides various metadata collection and DNS queries.
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Re:The habits of practically unhackable people by Buge on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:36PM (#9280261)
Like they say it works for "many major websites". It only works if the servers of the site support https, but don't advertise it.
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