> Edit: I forgot about man in the middle attacks from internet providers and governments who might modify the HTML and image payloads being transmitted to the e

> Edit: I forgot about man in the middle attacks from internet providers and governments who might modify the HTML and image payloads being transmitted to the end user. I guess HTTPS would be useful for prevent those types of exploits on static sites. So that pretty much means HTTPS should be on every site, if for no other reason than that. Not just governments. I can get in my car and go to the three main shopping malls in my relatively large Portuguese city. I will very easily MITM a bunch of people there, no problem, using a variety of attacks. They won't realize that I'm now sucking all their traffic in and modifying it as I please. After I've done that, if they visit any HTTP link, I can inject whatever I want there: crypto mining, download links to a modified/hacked version of their browser, social engineering attacks (phishing), cookie hijacking, etc. Notice how I can modify whatever HTTP page you have to link to websites you think are secure (banks, social media, websites), but that are modified (e.g. via sslstrip, or just by being similar-but-not-quite-the-same-hosts, etc) Many months ago I went through this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123366 It should be a duty for all sysadmins to make sure their sites are HTTPS. Sure, if they're only in an intranet, HTTPS is likely overkill. But any publicly hosted website should be forced to be HTTPS. One single HTTP website leaves a person vulnerable to millions of attacks. Many of these are still present on the web with HTTPS -- but at least then they'll typically be done by the people running the HTTPS site, not by someone in the middle.