▲ -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.
[–] stinerman@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago Your problem seems to be with cert authorities, which is not the same as HTTPS. I'd be interested in what your solution is that doesn't rely upon a 3rd party to guarantee that a website is ran by who it says it is. Also if you're complaining that browsers warn the user when using http, that's a complaint about the browser, not HTTPS. permalink fedilink source