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Comment by kentonv

11 years ago

> no. It means "even though this connection is encrypted, there is no way to tell you whether you are currently talking to that site or to NSA which is forwarding all of your traffic to the site you're on".

Well... that's true regardless, as the NSA almost certainly has control over one or more certificate authorities.

But I agree with the sentiment. :)

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