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Re:The Guardian has moved to HTTPS by mgbmtl on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:03AM (#13063848)
As far as I know, they are one of the few big media outlets to support https. So yes, this should have been done earlier, but kudos to them for pioneering this in their field and for publishing a short instruction manual for whoever else is planning this.

I'm not surprised that they are worried about the financial impact of https on their (very modest) revenue. It's a big investment for an industry struggling financially.

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Re:The Guardian has moved to HTTPS by stevekemp on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:25AM (#13064008)
The BBC is in the process of making the switch, and sometimes blog posts are published about progress:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-49...

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Re:The Guardian has moved to HTTPS by thinkMOAR on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:55AM (#13069354)
I don't consider a SSL certificate as a big investment? There is no ROI on ssl usage. Nor do they break the bank; There is a 'not running away because you don't' return, which in the end hurt more. NY times SSL capable since 2014, also late, but already 2 years earlier then this website.
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Re:The Guardian has moved to HTTPS by 0xmohit on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:50AM (#13064197)
RT switched to HTTPS a while back. https://www.rt.com/

> I'm not surprised that they are worried about the financial impact of https on their (very modest) revenue.

I don't see anything to that effect in the article.

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