Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by greenwich26 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:17PM (#26557463)

HTTPS is such a scam. It's an obvious ploy to conquer the last corners of the web not yet under corporate control. But apparently calling it "Let's Encrypt" instead of "Let's make your website technically dependent on a Google/Mozilla/Amazon/Facebook-controlled service" is enough to fool people.

It's totally obvious to me that, once HTTPS is mandatory, the next step will be that Let's Encrypt will stop supporting websites that disobey their "content policy" or whatever. It will follow the usual course. First outright illegal things. Then today's "deadly sins" like racism. Then unpopular politicians. And then, whatever they want.

You are literally making a random organization into the censor of the web.

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Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by shadowgovt on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:24PM (#26557578)

While there are a finite number of trust providers in the HTTPS signed certificate model, "Let's Encrypt" isn't the only one.

But, yes, HTTPS is a trust-rooted security model. It's hypothetically possible to have every cert provider decide you're not trusted. That's kind of in the category of "It's hypothetically possible to have every DNS provider decide you're not trusted" though.

If this is a concern, the solution is probably to come up with an HTTPS modification that allows for decentralized trust, not to set up the average use case of the web to "The user is trusting every machine between their client and the server to be reading their traffic and not acting maliciously on it." Tradeoffs, right?

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Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by frcom on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:31PM (#26557675)

And you can't just found a new SSL provider. The woke browsers need to accept its certificates.

In other words, something like the substack.com escape from the mainstream media won't work.

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