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.

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[+] [S] -26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They're free today. Maybe not tomorrow. But by then HTTP will have been "phased out" and asking the "security authority" for permission will have become common practice.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They're a non profit backed by a ton of major internet players, it's not going to happen. https://letsencrypt.org/about/

    What you're talking about was already the situation before LE existed, we're not going back to that. There's other free providers now too.

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