UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

[Toby Thain]

On 2022-04-06 9:27 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results that used
>> plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to push people to
>> switch to HTTPS (this was when everyone was hyperventilating over the Snowden
>> revelations). Given the near-ubiquitous use of HTTPS these days, I'd have
>> thought that piece of 'information credit engineering' by our tech overlords
>> was past its 'sell by' date, and now serves primarily to block people from
>> finding the material they are looking for (as here).
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> That's a classic example of a rule invented by people who can't think.  In fact, HTTP is perfectly fine for sites that arenot conducting web-based business activity.  Blogs are a good example, and I know at least one that runs HTTP for the simple reason that nothing else is needed.   Bitsavers is another example; nothing would be gained by adding all the overhead inflicted by HTTPS.

That's true IF you don't care about malicious content being injected 
into the material you're loading over http. "Protecting credit card 
numbers" is not the only thing encryption is good for.

Whoooosh and now watch this become the first 400 post off topic thread 
of 2022...

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> 	paul
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