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I really don’t get this opinion. The internet isn’t secure — the public internet is by definition an untrusted network assumed to be malicious and openly hostile. There is no safe way to use unencrypted connections on the public internet. None. Doesn’t matter if you are a good admin on your local network, doesn’t matter if you have a good ISP, you have zero guarantee the network path your packets will take and who has the opportunity to observe and modify them.

Look I get it. It’s no fun when the whole class is punished because because bad actors exist. And it’s no fun when someone pressures you into doing something for the benefit of others but not yourself. But the internet is really really different from 20 years ago.



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