Re: [Trisquel-users] Liferea privacy/security queries

[onpon4]

Whether the connection is secure would depend on the server you're getting  
information from. It's nothing to do with Liferea specifically. If the URL  
starts with "https", it's encrypted. If it starts with "http", it's not. This  
is true of Web browsers, too.

But note that the actual information in feeds is usually public. What would  
matter the most to a snooper is metadata: what feeds you're following,  
specifically. Encrypting a connection does nothing to prevent this kind of  
snooping. You need to use Tor to protect your anonymity: route your requests  
through proxies to obfuscate the location you're requesting information from.  
Whether the hassle of setting up Liferea to route through Tor properly is  
worth it is up to you. The easiest way to get that working is through Tails.  
(Tails is not a libre distro, I should note; it contains proprietary firmware  
blobs. But if you have a computer that doesn't have any hardware needing  
proprietary firmware like one of Think Penguin's computers, that firmware  
obviously won't run.)