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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by ams6110 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @07:33PM (#16336894)
Right -- so the security of a "Let's Encrypt" certificate is very minimal. It prevents MITM shenanigans and that's about it.
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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by CydeWeys on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:15PM (#16337385)
And spying/surveillance/analytics/snooping. That's not minimal. And you get all those benefits from checking a checkbox in cPanel and the rest is handled automatically? Who could be against that?!
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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by JankySolutions on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:40AM (#16338389)
What other shenanigans are you concerned about? MITM and sniffing are basically what https/tls are designed to prevent.
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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by anchpop on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:27PM (#16350004)
There's shenanigans like "grnail.com" pretending to be "gmail.com" which bigger and much more expensive certs prevent against. But the benefit of https that doesn't prevent against this is still very high
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