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rakoo
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Do you want your location along with your credentials to your lol cats forum in the wild ?
Depending on what site you're going to, you can be screwed pretty easily.
stephenr
on Aug 6, 2014
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I didn't mention credentials. Plenty of web use is anonymous, and has 0 need for SSL/TLS
rakoo
on Aug 7, 2014
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You don't need credentials to be identified, your browser can be identified quite accurately (see
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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AlyssaRowan
on Aug 6, 2014
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Counterexample: If you want it to be anonymous, you
need
TLS (and Tor!).
stephenr
on Aug 7, 2014
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Well I'm glad you're able to miss the fucking point with such efficiency
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Depending on what site you're going to, you can be screwed pretty easily.