Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-27 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:18:52PM +, Smylers wrote: [...] If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that at a bus stop? I doubt that they're happy about you making encrypted searches,

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-27 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 15:10 +, Peter Corlett wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:18:52PM +, Smylers wrote: [...] If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that at a bus stop? I

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-26 Thread Richard Clyne
O2 Wifi do this as well and I’d guess The Cloud do as well. My guess is that there could be liability issues if a shop offered public wifi and didn’t block some types of pages and hence these services block. Richard On 25 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: William Blunn

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-26 Thread Smylers
Richard Clyne writes: O2 Wifi do this as well and I’d guess The Cloud do as well. My guess is that there could be liability issues if a shop offered public wifi and didn’t block some types of pages and hence these services block. But BT know who I am — they have my name, address, and a

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-25 Thread Smylers
William Blunn writes: I was just using Google over BT Wifi when I noticed a little yellow box in the corner SSL search is off This network has turned off SSL search, so you cannot see personalised results. The security features of SSL search are not available. Content filtering may

BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-17 Thread William Blunn
Dear friendly london.pm people, This is not a Perl question, but you guys seems to be highly clued-up. I was just using Google over BT Wifi when I noticed a little yellow box in the corner SSL search is off This network has turned off SSL search, so you cannot see personalised results.

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-17 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:55:40PM +, William Blunn wrote: That is not the point. The point is that BT Wifi are deliberately meddling in something that's not their place to meddle in. Welcome to the world of being a product. Use a more reputable access provider.