> Lets reverse your example: If five people on your team think it's ok to accept logins via HTTPS and one person says "uh no, HTTP is enough, and also cheaper a

> Lets reverse your example: If five people on your team think it's ok to accept logins via HTTPS and one person says "uh no, HTTP is enough, and also cheaper and faster" would you ignore what he or she says, because the other five disagree? It's engineering. Hopefully, you make decisions base not on "How many people agree" but on "what is provably the most correct way of doing things". It is easy to prove that for login screens, HTTPS is better than HTTP...