Re:Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
by icebraining on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:28AM
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Ah, I think I'm missing an assumption you're making: that LE is indispensable (or almost) for browsers to deprecate HTTP.
Personally, I think the deprecation (as in, the warning bells and reduced priority, not full blocking) was going to happen anyway, and LE was mostly inconsequential, even if it makes the transition easier.
As for LE being a CA conspiracy, I don't think that makes much sense considering their funders (eg. Mozilla, Google) and those funders relationships with existing CAs (see WoSign, Symantec). But anything's possible.
Personally, I think the deprecation (as in, the warning bells and reduced priority, not full blocking) was going to happen anyway, and LE was mostly inconsequential, even if it makes the transition easier.
As for LE being a CA conspiracy, I don't think that makes much sense considering their funders (eg. Mozilla, Google) and those funders relationships with existing CAs (see WoSign, Symantec). But anything's possible.