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You are forgetting half of the benefit of HTTPS. Not only is content kept secret, but it is also kept unmodified. Even if your don't care about secrecy, you sh
by diafygi 10y ago
You are forgetting half of the benefit of HTTPS. Not only is content kept secret, but it is also kept unmodified.
Even if your don't care about secrecy, you should use HTTPS to ensure your content doesn't have ads or malware injected into it by your ISP (which happens) or a WiFi hijacker (which happens). If a user of yours sees an ad or gets a virus from someone injecting it in your website, they are going to blame you.
HTTPS protects the site owner just as much as the site user.
- notadoc 10y agoHmm, good point. The ad injection thing is quite relevant to developing markets, where many ISPs routinely inject ads onto sites. But it's certainly more overhead particularly for mom and pop businesses. I suppose it will drum up a lot of business for web developers though, a Chrome stimulus of sorts.