[Swansea Hackspace] ESP8266, DS18B20 and data.sparkfun.com

[Emyr Morris]

the URL is not encrypted and can still be read

therefore there is absolutely no need to use SSL

On 9 February 2015 at 15:52, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:30:59 +0000
> Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:
>
> > the sparkfun system is perfect. I don't see why ThingSpeak need to make
> it
> > https only! All it does is increase load on their hardware
>
> So random people don't spoof your device data ?
>
> The question really ought to be "why is anyone using http://" between
> anything but things soldered to each other by a cable.
>
> Alan
>
>
>


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