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This is a "rewriting reality to fit our agenda" kind of a post. > The majority of websites already support HTTPS When I run a webserver on a machine I just se
by einpoklum 6y ago
This is a "rewriting reality to fit our agenda" kind of a post.
> The majority of websites already support HTTPS
When I run a webserver on a machine I just set up, it has no certificate, certainly not one signed by anybody else, and there's no reason I need to be forced to use encryption with it.
> and those that don’t are increasingly uncommon.
False. Although - for fashionable Silicon Valley companies, "most websites" probably means something like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Wikipedia and a few others.
> Regrettably, websites often fall back to using the insecure and outdated HTTP protocol.
HTTP is "outdated"? "Fall back"? ... Seriously?
I guess we're just lucky FF's share has dropped so far that we shouldn't worry about this stuff. I just hope other browsers don't do this (although - who knows, right?)