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This is incredibly bad for the health of the web. In kneejerk response to the invasion of privacy from world governments we're handing absolute control of the w
by superkuh 6y ago
This is incredibly bad for the health of the web. In kneejerk response to the invasion of privacy from world governments we're handing absolute control of the web back to those very governments.
Everyone being forced to get permission from a centralized cert authority that is easily influenced, pressured, etc in order to host a visitable website is the end of the web as we know it. This is a slide into a total loss of autonomy.
I give it about 3 years before all commercial browsers stop allowing you to visit HTTP sites at all and Firefox only allows if you use their unstable beta build.
At that point you won't be able to host a visitable website without getting permission from someone else. And that's the end of the personal web.
- ric2b 6y agoI think you misunderstand how HTTPS works, there's no central root CS, nothing stops you from adding other trusted root certificate authorities. In fact, your browser trusts a few dozens of different ones, and companies routinely manage their own.
- superkuh 6y agoNo, I'm just assuming that you're going to follow through on that thought and realize statistically no one does that for self signed certs except corporations which aren't human persons anyway.
- ric2b 6y agoThe point isn't that you can run it yourself, it's that there isn't a central one and there are dozens or hundreds of different options already, based in different countries.