Like the TSA at the airport.

Security that we never needed before, but now suddenly we do.

Now we’re dependent on a third party gatekeeper for permission to have a web site.

Free, for now.

It’s a move by the weasels-that-be to turn the Internet into yet another tool for profit and control.

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    They’re free today. Maybe not tomorrow. But by then HTTP will have been “phased out” and asking the “security authority” for permission will have become common practice.

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      They’re a non profit backed by a ton of major internet players, it’s not going to happen. https://letsencrypt.org/about/

      What you’re talking about was already the situation before LE existed, we’re not going back to that. There’s other free providers now too.

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        Just out of curiosity, what other trusted certificate authorities are there that offer ssl certs for free and no strings attached other than letsencrypt?

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        Ok. That’s a good argument. I didn’t realize that the forces for good here were so strong in this.

        But frankly I’d rather not depend on them either.

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          Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority