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It's not likely that they would attempt active attacks to decrypt your TLS web traffic. I'd assume they won't be able to read the full contents of those sessions.

STARTTLS on mail is a slightly different story, though I'm going to assume that most of the established compaines are smart enough fo avoid email snooping.

You might, however, be surprised at how much you give away via the metadata associated with your web browsing.



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