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Response: Open Web Alliance Lobbies to Intercept Your Traffic

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59 pointsJoachimS13 comments

"Open Web Alliance". Sounds like a good thing, doesn't it? Open is great! Oh, wait, they want it to be open so that they can read all of your traffic. Wat.

There's a long history of abusing words or phrases with positive connotations in order to achieve something else (often the exact opposite).

It's basically Newspeak from Orwell's 1984.

One of the more recent ones is the "Internet Freedom Act" being proposed by Republicans and which aims to end Net Neutrality.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet...

Republicans have (at least in the last few decades) been the best at this practice. PATRIOT act is probably the most notorious example.

And the recent "Internet Freedom Act" http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet... with this choice quote from its author: "Once the federal government establishes a foothold into managing how Internet service providers run their networks they will essentially be deciding which content goes first, second, third, or not at all"

> PATRIOT act is probably the most notorious example.

It is the USA PATRIOT act, and not only is that name an example of what you describe, but its actually an acronym over a longer bit of the same thing:

"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"

I wish there was a website illustrating the political compass of companies. Showing their affiliate network, money flows, endorsements/statements, tax-haven parent companies and ivory collections of elephant hunting CEOs. Call me reactionary.

People occasionally build things like https://opencorporates.com/ , but generally you're talking about maintaining a lot of information whose maintainers need to be paid somehow.

Yeah i can see that it is a lot of work. I could be reduced to influential companies that are listed in the stockmarket or are somehow else classified as influential. Food-watch for apps and devices... I am just winging it now. Time to do some googling.

> "The HTTP2 protocol is more efficient when running over a encrypted connection"

Can someone explain this to me? How does the encryption make the procotol more efficient?

I think this is just an inaccurate statement. I think it is true that the performance gains of HTTP/2.0 relative to HTTP/1.1 are greater when both are running over encrypted connections rather than both running over unencrypted connections, but I don't think that HTTP/2.0 over encrypted connections is more efficient (using any normal understanding of that term) than HTTP/2.0 over an unencrypted connection.

That was also my impression. Thanks.

I recently switched a forum that I run completely to HTTPS when my users started complaining. Broken proxies at their ISP were breaking the forum for them. Who knows what other kinds of meddling is going on...

Always on asymmetric encrypted IP could solve all these interception issues.

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