"In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important

"In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important." s/its secure alternative/a secure alternative/ s/,HTTPS,// This NYT blog post reads like an advertisement. If the newspaper is worried about guaranteeing the authenticity of its web content, then why don't they publish their SSL certificate in the print version? For scanning/OCR. No third party CA needed. When connecting to the desired website, I can check for the correct certificate myself, thanks. This is not a perfect solution, but it is better than third party CA's or letting third parties embed certificates in browsers where no user ever looks at them. In my opinion.