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Edit: Ignore this. It seems most of the posts I was talking about were either deleted or edited. Keeping my original message here for completeness sake. --- T

by throwaway2016a 9y ago

Edit: Ignore this. It seems most of the posts I was talking about were either deleted or edited. Keeping my original message here for completeness sake. --- The number of people saying that this is a clever workaround and agreeing with the people putting in the bug reports is very disheartening to see on HN. If a highly technical crowd such as HN can't get why HTTPS is important than what hope does everyone else have? Troy hunt is a security researcher. The examples of the bug reports and quotes were meant to terrify and it worked on me. If I was a customer of any of these examples I would be pissed. If you're not upset and/or frightened please for everyone's sake take an infosec course or read up on the subject.

Ajedi32 9y ago
> The number of people saying that this is a clever workaround and agreeing with the people putting in the bug reports is very disheartening to see on HN Huh? I've been through this entire thread and I haven't seen anyone suggest that this is acceptable behavior; even in the heavily-downvoted comments. It's mostly just people laughing at the lengths this site went to to shoot itself in the foot.
- throwaway2016a 9y ago
  Wow... looking at it now I don't either. I don't know if they got flagged or deleted or editor of what. One of the comments in particular I can see was clearly edited to be more clear that they thought it was a bad idea.