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That ship has sailed. http has been retired.

• bigstrat2003 2y ago
  It hasn't been retired. Using HTTPS everywhere is cargo cult nonsense. Most sites do not benefit from it, and the push to have it everywhere is obnoxious as hell.
  • hirako2000 2y ago
    It was obnoxious, let's encrypt solved that from the operator's perspective. Man in the middle attacks are very real. A good ratio of routers get hacked during manufacture, or have a backdoor that get exploited by other hackers. an http hits make these exploit even easier to execute. Public WiFi are often insecure, https works around that problem (for the most part). From an attacker perspective, widespread https has become obnoxious, yes.
  • GuinansEyebrows 2y ago
    The prevalence of good advice is obnoxious? Or is it the five minutes' labor of setting up https for your services that annoys you?