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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by wmil on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:50PM (#13303833)
The bigger issue is hardware / software that manufacturers won't update. HTTPS best practices often require servers to drop support for old protocols.

So if you pull out a 10 year old palm pilot and try to go to HN it won't work due to SSL.

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Re:Why HTTPS for Everything? by timthorn on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:56PM (#13303899)
Indeed, computer history museums are going to only be able to show older working exhibits - cloud backed gadgets will just be objects to look at and imagine what they used to be.
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