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daphreak
on April 20, 2015
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Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP
Could you not solve 1 by having an HTTPS index page with content hashes?
meric
on April 20, 2015
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If they can modify the content on a website, they can modify the content hashes on the index page. I suppose you could put the content hashes on an https page...
fluidcruft
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>> Could you not solve 1 by having an HTTPS index page with content hashes?
> I suppose you could put the content hashes on an https page...
Aren't these the same thing?
meric
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Yes, I meant using https for a subsection instead of the entire page as a solution, my comment reluctantly recognising the parents solution as valid.
mcguire
on April 20, 2015
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If they can modify the content on a web site, they can modify the data hosted on the site, in place.
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