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Lammy • yesterday at 4:41 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> It's ridiculous to argue otherwise.

I wholeheartedly disagree :)

If you will refer to the “survivability onion”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivability#/media/File:Surv...

                 Don't be there
     I am here → Don't be seen
                 Don't be acquired
  You are here → Don't be hit
                 Don't be penetrated
                 Don't be killed
One will note that it's called ‘HTTPS’ and not ‘HTTPP’ lol

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nl • yesterday at 5:02 AM

> If you will refer to the “survivability onion”

> I am here → Don't be seen

My point is that you aren't. For example under the old HTTP only internet they could see you were visiting HN, who you were and what you published.

Under HTTPS they see you are visting HN.

It's strictly better except in cases of visiting highly popular data which was cached in public caches. These public caches were much less wide spread than you appear to believe (for example in Australia the Internode ISP tried one for a little while but abandoned it because of the problems with it serving info one logged in person to another - cache invalidation was frequently buggy)

> One will note that it's called ‘HTTPS’ and not ‘HTTPP’

Not sure who that is aimed at but I didn't write HTTPP, and yours is the only mention of it on this page.

> lol

If you are going to lol you had better make sure you are correct about what you are laughing about....

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