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		rythie on April 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP What if they replaced the cat gif with a some objectionable content? e.g. a beheading, surely this could scar you for life?

IanCal on April 20, 2015 [–]

Is that particularly likely? That someone will MITM my connection to show me a shock image? Is that a realistic threat you're trying to guard against?

What makes that much more likely than someone just emailing it to me? Or tricking me into it by putting different text in the link?

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