Re: Hmm...
"Not quite sure about the justification here..."
With ANY in-the-clear transmission, your stuff can be altered in-flight by any relay. That's how the Chinese Cannon works, and Verizon's session tagging, and that's why Telnet and rlogin were abandoned for Secure Shell. Using HTTPS blocks this in situ modification unless the relay can masquerade as the source site.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
