Re:Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
by icebraining on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:34PM
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99% of the public doesn't donate either.
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Re:Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:14PM
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I'd be amazed of it wasn't at least five-9s, Facebook has 2B users.
Re:Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
by majewsky on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:48AM
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You're underestimating how many web designers and devs are out there. These easily number in the millions.
Also, what grandparent said: "The public", in this case, is people who would donate, of which 100% know what a CA is.
Re:Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:50PM
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Assuming Facebook's numbers represent two-thirds of all web users then I'm saying I'd be surprised if LetsEncrypt have more than 30,000 donors.
If we're quibbling about "the public" then the GP comments only make sense if "the public" means "people who aren't IT professionals", in which case I'd warrant that there are far fewer donors than 30k who aren't IT professionals, indeed it's got to be ~0.
Can't see donor details on the LE pages though? Mind you at approx.av.300k certs issued daily (https://letsencrypt.org/stats/) I concede I could easily be orders of magnitude out in my guesswork.