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mrbluze writes:
"A modified HTTP protocol is being proposed (the proposal is funded by AT&T) which would allow ISP's to decrypt and re-encrypt traffic as part of day to day functioning in order to save money on bandwidth through caching. The draft document states:
To distinguish between an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "https" URIs resources and an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "http" URIs resource, the draft proposes to 'register a new value in the Application Layer Protocol negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs registry specific to signal the usage of HTTP2 to transport "http" URIs resources: h2clr.
The proposal is being criticized by Lauren Weinstein in that it provides a false sense of security to end users who might believe that their communications are actually secure. Can this provide an ISP with an excuse to block or throttle HTTPS traffic?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Monday February 24 2014, @08:34PM
ISPs and network providers: Your job is to build bandwidth with the obscene profits we have handed you over the years. Your job is NOT to find ways to prevent having to fetch a few more bits. Do your job. Build the networks. Carry the data.
Turning everything over to the NSA is precisely why we want HTTPS everywhere. You proved you couldn't be trusted. Now STFU, lay the fiber, build the network, or get out of the way.
"frojack" and other idiots who sympathize with him: We're going to keep the obscene profits you gave us, and we're going to pay your government representatives for even more laws which favor us and guarantee us more obscene profits, so our CEOs can buy giant yachts. We're going to do the absolute minimum with regards to building networks, because we don't give a shit if your Netflix streams are unwatchable because of excessive packet dropping, since you should be paying us handsomely to use our shitty video-on-demand services instead. On top of all that, we're going to give the NSA access to anything they want.
Don't like it? Too bad, chump! What are you going to do about it, switch to a competing ISP? Bwahahahahaha! Now STFU and pay our exorbitant bill to you for our shitty services.
- ISPs and network providers
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:22AM
Ack! You found us here! We built a whole new site to get away from your money grubbing hands
Is there no place sacred?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base