Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> writes:> Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public?Watering hole attacks. DES -- Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - des at des.no
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 08:53, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:> Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> writes: > > Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public? > > Watering hole attacks.Watering hole attack describes the *site* being compromised because it's popular and you know the target(s) will go there. HTTPS is irrelevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_Hole -- Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld at FreeBSD.org