Felicitas Pojtinger šŸŒ…Sep 25, 2025
Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks
Show threadStuart Longland (VK4MSL)Sep 27, 2025

@pojntfx I think Google has since fixed the cleartext-in-the-DC issue but that alone doesn't earn them trust.

I'm old enough to remember when even the front-end of webmail services was cleartext.

Show threadSteve HoldenSep 28, 2025

@stuartl @pojntfx Iā€™m old enough to remember when TCI/IP was invented, and anyone smartcenougb to have deployed it could be trusted by default. And you tell these young folk nowadays, etc., etc. (stumbles off, mumbling and stroking into beard).

I miss those days. The UK Internet Consortium was influential (even though nobody even remembers it). It achieved its goal, and the UK uses the same (more efficient) standards as the rest of the world.

Show threadSteve Holden
@stuartl @pojntfx I regard founding the UK Internet Consortium as one of the two most significant achievements of my career, even though very few people have ever heard of it. In accordance with NLP theory, my attention was on the goal.
Sep 28, 2025 at 9:25pmWeb