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Fluffeh writes:
A recent article by The Intercept showed how US and UK intelligence agencies have been impersonating the servers of companies like Facebook. In November, Der Spiegel noted that agencies created "bogus versions" of sites like Slashdot and LinkedIn to plant malware in targets' machines.
Copyright claims brought against the government must be filed in the US Court of Federal Claims, and the subject matter in question must have previously been registered with the Copyright Office-something companies don't typically do for their Web interfaces.
In contrast, under the Lanham Act, the government is expressly liable. The law clearly states, "As used in this paragraph, the term 'any person' includes the United States, all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, and all individuals, firms, corporations, or other persons acting for the United States and with the authorization and consent of the United States."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday March 26 2014, @02:19AM
Within the context [xkcd.com] of the proposed solution (sue NSA for "spearphishing" and thus breaching the trademark), using https would be a deterrent by increasing the cost of the attack (even if not making it impossible).
Granted, I'd like to live in a world where the Internet is entirely Tor-ified and there's enough bandwidth to not feel a difference - but again, I'm surely not representative (as, for instance, I do prefer my games offline rather than MMO-ed).