Like the TSA at the airport.

Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do.

Now we’re dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site.

Free, for now.

It’s a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You have the timeline backwards. That’s pretty much how it was untile letsencrypt hit the scene.

    But the technology of https works even with a cert not from a trusted root issuer. You just have that annoying page to click through on web browsers.