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Google is the industry's most active and effective corporate advocate for TLS. They're one of the key drivers for certificate pinning and one of the earliest mainstream deployers of forward secrecy. So I think that argument is a little bogus.

I don't understand the first point, though. Could you clarify?

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QUIC is a very new, experimental protocol that runs on UDP. Their (relevant) basis is that TCP's algorithms are completely controlled by the OSes and the routers and all. Using UDP, QUIC can quickly deploy new algorithms without requiring a major part of the world's infrastructure changed.

Sure, but SPDY is a TCP protocol, and so inherits TCP-friendliness from that; I'm just not seeing what that has to do with HTTP.

Google is the industry's most active and effective corporate advocate for TLS simply because it makes tracking users and selling targeted advertising a whole lot easier. Their involvement in the whole PRISM affair has undoubtedly demonstrated that privacy is none of their concern.

I wish I could somehow CAPTCHA comments like these so I could tell if they were people or Markov generators.

Years ago, in days of old, when magic filled the air, I wrote a Slashdot troll post generator. It eventually produced some pretty hilarious posts, but I never closed the loop by allowing it to post. It would make a fun project for learning a new language; perhaps I'll install Dart and give it a shot.

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