• widowdoll@ttrpg.network
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    6 hours ago

    If a website is so questionable it might leak, it probably shouldn’t be in common use

    Tell me you know nothing about software without telling me you know nothing about software.

    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, it was a bit ill thought out but I’d argue its more idealistically unrealistic

      We could live in a world something along the lines of websites sending HTTPS certs based on users location with the cert granted by those governments and if you sell or store customers data then you need a security audit for the code.

      That would obviously need tweaking and is a long way away from where the world is today, but a world where any website could be malicious is about as necessary as a country where walking into any restaurant has a probable chance of you being shot. A nice part of that analogy is that the main thing holding both together is strong trustworthy institutions. But the web is that way more from history rather than a deep technical issue that forces the internet to be that way. Also probably time, that sort of audit is probably prohibitively expensive, but that could be considered part of the true cost to society that we’re ignoring