MajesticHobo

I don't like Gawker either. But seeing people praise this decision merely because Gawker sucks, while casually dismissing other concerns, including the serious First Amendment ramifications, makes me very uneasy.

That's not a nice summary at all. It's a (mildly amusing) inane quip that also happens to miss the point.

This is why I commit with username@users.noreply.github.com

The line of reasoning, is, IMO:

You have the right to communicate freely -> encryption is just a form of (ostensibly garbled) communication -> you have the right to use encryption freely.

Nothing in that clause says the communication must be understandable or even interpretable by all people.

> Also, does the Tor Browser, which includes NoScript, default to blocking iframes?

No. Tor Browser defaults to the lowest security level, allowing all scripts, media, iframes, etc.

Possibly, but it's no longer the case. Too many aspects of the modern internet are centralized to a degree that makes resistance against that difficult.

And patching isn't even that hard.

Direct link to HTG guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-w...

> if (deviceId = 1234) {

... Is that a backdoor within a backdoor? :)