11 karma · joined July 15, 2019
I thought that the latest consensus on HN was that C is nowhere closer to the hardware.
what a depressing graveyard
Your conclusion is nothing more than a hilarious ad hominem attack on the language.
A bloo bloo bloo!
If your ISP does this, or if you are on a sketchy network somewhere, then maybe you should not use it at all. Get a new ISP, or use a VPN if you are that worried. If the webmaster is not sharing sensitive information on his casually maintained static website, then that is good enough reason not to use HTTPS. I know it sounds... uncaring.
It is true ordinary people, who don't understand the risks could get MITM'd and never suspect a thing. For some reason I still don't care enough to put HTTPS on my shitty old flash game website. I just can't be bothered. I think that is good enough of a reason. Blame should go on the ISP who are MITM'ing their customers.
"Demoralization now reaches such areas that previously, not even comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans; thanks to a lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized, he is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. ... Only when a military boot crashes into his fat bottom, then he will understand."
The Western world has maybe 20-30 years left before serious political upheaval turns our way of life on its head. Call me a cook conspiracy theorist or make fun of my old quote from a kgb agent being pushed around in dubious circles today.
Here's a clue:
what's up with that