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As an individual user, you have no better information than your knowledge of the website and its claims on security, maybe its brand, and what your social circl
by bnjemian 9y ago
As an individual user, you have no better information than your knowledge of the website and its claims on security, maybe its brand, and what your social circles claim about its security practices. A certificate authority at least has the potential to aggregate data and from there assess the security of a website. The original ideas behind certificate authorities are not dissimilar from insurance.