HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds
Mark Felder
feld at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 18 14:00:19 UTC 2015
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 08:53, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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
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Mark Felder
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