Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2016-07-11 16:43, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> HTTPS serves two purposes: one is encryption of data in transport,
> which may or may not be truly necessary.  When when a server only
> hosts publicly-available information it may indeed seem overkill.

I'd perhaps suggest that encryption of all internet traffic is actually 
quite important as a default to ensure people are guaranteed privacy 
unless they choose not to want it.

Unencrypted traffic leaks information about the receiver - even for 
'read-only' stores, patterns of access and what is accessed is 
information about which much can be potentially inferred for any 
interested in snooping.

I guess the issue here is that people generally (rightly or wrongly!) 
assume things they do are private unless they have explicitly chosen to 
make them otherwise; using the internet unencrypted is a complete 
reversal of this situation.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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