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brownianemotion

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    Comment #25034926

    Glad to hear the virus is not dangerous, a pity you've informed us all so late!

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    Comment #24696596

    The thing is, once you man in the middle it, without https, you can serve whatever content you want. It is no longer a page of "text and images", but one with malicious scripts, ma…

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    Comment #24637062

    It's a trusted site, without https it's e.g. easier to perform a mitm attack that could expose users to attacks. Not only encryption is important, authentication too, you want to k…

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    Comment #24431097

    A great way to let someone understand recursion is to let them learn how the principle of mathematical induction works. It gets rid of all the noise related to the programming lang…

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    Comment #24364758

    I'm speechless, this is terrifying. I hope the protests in the US lead to change for these people.

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    Comment #24292541

    It was not clear to me that it was specifically the combination with ESNI that was being blocked.

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    Ask HN: Is TLS 1.2 broken (enough)?

    While reading about the Great Chinese Firewall blocking all TLS 1.3 traffic I was wondering why they allow TLS 1.2 traffic? My first guess would be that the web would be unusable w…