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SSL (or TLS nowadays) not only protects against surveillance but also guarantees the integrity of the data you send and receive. Without it, someone could spoof the response you receive. In practice this means injecting ads or malware or even worse: fake shakespeare!

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
According to some, all Shakespeare is fake Shakespeare.

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- intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pay no attention to the man in the middle
  
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Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thanks for the explanation!

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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It is brutal how few people know how to implement it and how apps all seem to have their own ways of doing it. I have to keep notes for the quirks of every damn app/OS I work with that uses SSL/TLS.

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