▲ -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.
[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent