HTTPS

[DogPizz]

Hi, it would be awesome if this site implemented HTTPS, now that we have the government given permission to spy on us, and the thing with ISP's blocking porn in the UK, and even the TOR network being exploited by the FBI.

Even if you are using a seedbox, the part where you browse the site and load the images (from bakashots) is unencrypted, letting your ISP and potential 3rd parties see everything you are browsing.

VPN's are good, but Steam doesn't like it when you use VPN's even if you're not using it to bypass pricing and region restrictions and there may be other programs that don't like it as well. Proxies work but not everyone has access readily to one and it takes a bit of extra work getting the links (especially into a seedbox etc).

Sites like TPB and Imgur have HTTPS, so I think this site would benefit from it, what do you guys think?

[megido-rev.M]

I don't think this site based in the US?
Also, wasn't this idea brought up somewhere here?

[DogPizz]

I just realized I posted this in the wrong section, was supposed to post to site feedback and suggestions.

Anyway, I did a quick search and this is all I could find: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=18725.msg4306416#msg4306416, which was suggested four years ago, and I think it's a different matter as it's something to do with the actual torrent downloads.

Where the site is hosted is fine, but I was referring to the way we traverse the site via HTTP, this traffic has to go through your ISP, and they can see everything you browse such as the pictures hosted on BakaSHOTS and the torrent page unless you use a VPN or Proxy, but as I stated in the first post this is inconvenient and conflicts with some programs such as Steam.

But if HTTPs was implemented it will be like we are talking to the site in a code, and your ISP won't be able to figure out what we were saying  .

[Big Teeth]

When you are paranoid, then better disconnect from the Internet NOW!
BakaBT is just 0.1% of your daily routine (wild guess).
Increasing server overhead a lot to implement https, doesn't help you a lot,
you still need the other 99.9% https-ed (or whatever) too.
Accept the internet as it is (and will become). Or get another hobby.

[Freedom Kira]

Yeah, I think if you're paranoid enough to worry about a site like BakaBT, which has never implemented any kind of encryption, when a clean majority of its users are Americans, you probably should stay off the Internet altogether.

Besides, encrypt the site if you want, but you can't easily enforce encryption in torrents, which are far more arrest-worthy than anything anyone could post on the site.

[Xycolian2332]

which are far more arrest-worthy than anything anyone could post on the site.

Depends on whether the US govt considers loli as child porn or not

[megido-rev.M]

which are far more arrest-worthy than anything anyone could post on the site.

Depends on whether the US govt considers loli as child porn or not

If loli were illegal there it would probably not be because of that anyway.

[Bozobub]

Depends on whether the US govt considers loli as child porn or not

Loli/shota and similar content IS legal in the US, as long as all of the depictions are imaginary; there's more than one legal precedent already.  Otherwise, Nabokov's "Lolita", itself, would be illegal ...

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Hi, it would be awesome if this site implemented HTTPS, now that we have the government given permission to spy on us, and the thing with ISP's blocking porn in the UK, and even the TOR network being exploited by the FBI.

The big deal about the recent revelations about the NSA is that they have access at the end of the connection - after your data has already been decrypted.  SSL doesn't help you here.  Then again, it's unlikely there's an NSA black box plugged into BakaBT's rack.

Increasing server overhead a lot to implement https,

It depends on the ciphers you choose.  Practically, it's a non-issue; Google famously switched over to SSL by default for Gmail without deploying any additional hardware.

doesn't help you a lot,
you still need the other 99.9% https-ed (or whatever) too.

It protects you from session hijacking on this site, which ranges from "not important at all" to "pretty damn important" depending on the person.

Implementing SSL-everywhere on a site can vary from trivial to a bit of work, depending on how things are set up.  I don't know how much work it'd be to add it to BakaBT.

[jmm]

I'm new around here, but privacy is no joke, every organism or activist that fights for the freedom of internet supports https, so I as the first one posting I agree with him that it should be implemented in every website, it's not that we are going to do anything wrong here, but we have the right of no one evesdropping on us.

Nowadays it's been known that NSA filters the 75% of the US traffic (but also the rest of the world) so even if you think that them knowing what series you watch it's not such a big deal, it indeed is! as they are building up a profile of your person based on what videos you see, what webpages you visit to sell it to companies or to use it against you.

So again, no joke on privacy, and if you check it every site is turning on encryption so why wouldn't you?