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> (The worst thing that happened in the last 30 years of the web was the transition from http to https, in another 10 years web browsers might quit supporting h
by heurisko 4y ago
> (The worst thing that happened in the last 30 years of the web was the transition from http to https, in another 10 years web browsers might quit supporting http entirely.)
Enforcing HTTPS was one of the best things to happen to the web, when attacks by tools such as Firesheep and nation states doing dragnet surveillance was (is) rife.
- ghusto 4y agoI really disagree. Enforcing HTTPS is bad enough, but refusing to support plain HTTP for trivial sites is just arrogant and user hostile. Say I don't care about the possibility of some of my magazine subscriptions being tampered with. Sure, put some kind of security in place for things that are delivering me important sensitive information — like official government information? I don't know. Forcing that down my throat for Fishing Weekly though, is just pointless. Oh, did hackers change the weight of that record fish? Oh no! "But security!" is the new "Think of the children".
- PaulHoule 4y agoI didn't mean to make a moral judgement in "worst" except that it was the "worst" in terms of being some event that would require somebody to make changes. Those changes are certainly not covered in the $10 / month budget I'm suggesting.