> Like, if I'm severely allergic to peanuts, then I take reasonable steps to avoid them, such as not patronizing a restaurant that uses peanuts in its food.
What if someone made you a sandwich and didn't tell you there were peanuts in it with the intent of causing a reaction? Eating the sandwich could have been avoided, but you wouldn't know that until you took a bite.
I wish Java had done more backwards comparability breakage. I wonder if we'd see the same issues if Java eliminated null in exchange for a Option/Maybe style monad and if generic types were saved instead of erased at compile time.
Java 9 is not fully compatible with Java 8. So we will soon see first hand if doing more backward compat breakage, for good they told, will be accepted or not. I predict there will be an internet outrage when Java 9 will be out.
> A student should be able to browse for information on depression without their principal knowing it, a dissident should be able to research how to avoid national firewalls without their government knowing it, and anyone who damn well pleases should be able to read whatever they like without their ISP knowing it.
If you just redirect all of the http traffic this isn't entirely helpful to these people. The original request is sent in clear text and redirected.
We'd assume they'd be using HTTPS, you can't redirect HTTPS traffic without serving an invalid certificate which most browsers will warn you of. Or a forged cert, but that's harder to do.
Unfortunately HTTPS is unable to protect you in a school/office setting, or wherever you use a computer provided to you by someone else.
In those cases, certificates can (and will) be forged very easily.
That overlay only shows up for me after I've switched to the LastPass keyboard and selected the password and filled in the box, too little way too late.
What if someone made you a sandwich and didn't tell you there were peanuts in it with the intent of causing a reaction? Eating the sandwich could have been avoided, but you wouldn't know that until you took a bite.