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Goddamnit, do you really have to tell us there's a picture via pseudotags in the title? It's like you're scraping a rake down a virtual chalkboard. It's a personal attack, and I won't STAND for it.
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Please support HTTPS by default [PIC]

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William Entriken
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Please support HTTPS by default [PIC]

Please redirect to an HTTPS connection by default on stackoverflow.com

To illustrate the problem, please see the screenshot below where a man-in-the-middle attack is being used to forge responses from Stack Overflow and inject advertisements.

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A wildly crude estimate of the financial cost of this attack is as follows:

  • Xfinity hotspots / All Wifis in the US = 1.5m/77m = 2%

  • SO revenue = $2m in 2010 * 5x growth = $10m per year

  • 50% of ad clicks will be on the injected ad (because it is more interactive and new)

  • 20% of visitors in the US

LOST REVENUE IS $20,000 PER YEAR DUE TO COMCAST ALONE

Sources for numbers above