Just curious OP: Why would you put up an HTTP link instead of an HTTPS link? I'll accept ignorance as a reason, provided you are now aware of the hazard. HTTP conversations between nodes are transmitted in cleartext. And if you're browsing chans in HTTP, well that's just a bad idea these days. 4chan does not automatically redirect to HTTPS.
HTTPS is encrypted. HTTP is not. The contents of HTTPS conversations cannot (easily some say) be revealed by parties in between the two computers involved in the conversation.
Don't browse the chans from your own IP, regardless of HTTPS. Use a VPN, which includes encryption from your connection to the VPN node. This negates the "bad idea" part related to government surveillance. Also, use a logless VPN outside five, preferably eleven eyes.
If your setup does not automatically switch over to HTTPS when available you're doing yourself a disservice. Don't use HTTPS everywhere, it is blacklist-based. Use an add-on that defaults to HTTPS and then tries HTTP if secure connection isn't available. This negates the problem of HTTPS everywhere manually having to add sites and thus never can be complete.
Also, uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus and NoScript, Privacy Badger, Decentralize and WebRTC disabled.
Assuming the VPN is trustworthy. Still not worth locking yourself down to one entry point when you can use TAILS + TOR and have multiple random entry and exit points plus no one point knows both who you are and what you're doing.
The more you know :-) You usually have to type out HTTPS:// in your browser before hitting the chans as they willingly feed HTTP requests. Your browser usually defaults to HTTP as a first attempt if you just type a website address into it.
IP's are at best blurred with current methods, so do what you can. The real problem is that the traffic itself is subject to examination by anyone along the route from the server back to your machine. Maybe you care little that so many companies and agencies will know that you are examining PG evidence. But many folk do care but, like you, may not know the hazards of clicking an HTTP link to a chan.
I cut and pasted the link, then added the s. Seemed to work fine. There is a ton of information there... Lots of pictures and connections between different people and organizations.
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oftotc ago
Just curious OP: Why would you put up an HTTP link instead of an HTTPS link? I'll accept ignorance as a reason, provided you are now aware of the hazard. HTTP conversations between nodes are transmitted in cleartext. And if you're browsing chans in HTTP, well that's just a bad idea these days. 4chan does not automatically redirect to HTTPS.
mooteensy ago
ok, ill be the idiot to ask what the difference is between http and https then....
oftotc ago
HTTPS is encrypted. HTTP is not. The contents of HTTPS conversations cannot (easily some say) be revealed by parties in between the two computers involved in the conversation.
Weyland ago
A lot of wonderful ideas in the thread.
Don't browse the chans from your own IP, regardless of HTTPS. Use a VPN, which includes encryption from your connection to the VPN node. This negates the "bad idea" part related to government surveillance. Also, use a logless VPN outside five, preferably eleven eyes.
If your setup does not automatically switch over to HTTPS when available you're doing yourself a disservice. Don't use HTTPS everywhere, it is blacklist-based. Use an add-on that defaults to HTTPS and then tries HTTP if secure connection isn't available. This negates the problem of HTTPS everywhere manually having to add sites and thus never can be complete.
Also, uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus and NoScript, Privacy Badger, Decentralize and WebRTC disabled.
wincraft71 ago
Assuming the VPN is trustworthy. Still not worth locking yourself down to one entry point when you can use TAILS + TOR and have multiple random entry and exit points plus no one point knows both who you are and what you're doing.
Dressage2 ago
I just copied and pasted from the half Chan. Not real techie.
HolyMoly0 ago
How about editing the link to https now that you know?
Dressage2 ago
Thanks, I didn’t know I could change it and that link would still work. I fixed and will remember in the future.
srayzie ago
I would have done the same. We’re not all experts 🙄
oftotc ago
The more you know :-) You usually have to type out HTTPS:// in your browser before hitting the chans as they willingly feed HTTP requests. Your browser usually defaults to HTTP as a first attempt if you just type a website address into it.
srayzie ago
Does that tell them your IP address or something?
oftotc ago
IP's are at best blurred with current methods, so do what you can. The real problem is that the traffic itself is subject to examination by anyone along the route from the server back to your machine. Maybe you care little that so many companies and agencies will know that you are examining PG evidence. But many folk do care but, like you, may not know the hazards of clicking an HTTP link to a chan.
srayzie ago
Well thanks for teaching us! 🤓
pby1000 ago
I cut and pasted the link, then added the s. Seemed to work fine. There is a ton of information there... Lots of pictures and connections between different people and organizations.
GaydolphNiggler ago
Https Everywhere exists. I'm sure you know, based on your knowledge, just helping out others who don't
SoSpricyHotDog ago
It only "exists" if the SSL certificate is installed and validated properly via CSR.