▲ -62 ▼ Is HTTPS a scam? (lemm.ee) submitted 2 years ago* by Dr_Satan@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 67 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Just out of curiosity, what other trusted certificate authorities are there that offer ssl certs for free and no strings attached other than letsencrypt? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago https://zerossl.com/ https://www.sslforfree.com/ Cloudflare if you route traffic through them (you might consider this a string) permalink fedilink source parent [+] Dr_Satan@lemm.ee [S] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ok. That's a good argument. I didn't realize that the forces for good here were so strong in this. But frankly I'd rather not depend on them either. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] towerful@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority permalink fedilink source parent
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Just out of curiosity, what other trusted certificate authorities are there that offer ssl certs for free and no strings attached other than letsencrypt? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago https://zerossl.com/ https://www.sslforfree.com/ Cloudflare if you route traffic through them (you might consider this a string) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago https://zerossl.com/ https://www.sslforfree.com/ Cloudflare if you route traffic through them (you might consider this a string) permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Dr_Satan@lemm.ee [S] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ok. That's a good argument. I didn't realize that the forces for good here were so strong in this. But frankly I'd rather not depend on them either. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] towerful@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority permalink fedilink source parent
[–] towerful@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority permalink fedilink source parent