[HTTPS-E Rulesets] reddit.com wants EFF to disable HTTPS???

[Mike Perry]

Thus spake Osama Khalid (osamak at gnu.org):

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:47:29AM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> > Despite the diversity of views in the project's open source ocmmunity, we
> > were, and are still, planning to push an update that disables the ruleset.
> > That will probably happen today.
> 
> Peter, I think we should move the reddit.com -> pay.reddit.com rule to
> Reddit+ (which is disabled by default) and keep other Reddit rules in
> effect, which only redirect thumbnails and some images to their
> original Amazon's S3 URL with HTTPS, and this doesn't cause overload
> issues.

Are overload issues the only reason for disabling the rule by default?
Or are there other issues?

What is the user experience when overload happens, and how often does
it happen?



-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs
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