It feels like just yesterday I was paying for certs, or worst, just running without.
Can't believe its been ten years.
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Can't believe its been ten years.
The lack of understanding from us as technologists for people who would have had a working site and are now forced into either: an oligopoly of site hosting companies, or, for their site to break consistently as TLS standards rotate is one thing that brings me shame about our community.
You can come up with all kinds of reasons to gatekeep website hosting, “they have to update anyway” even when updating means reinstallion of an OS, “its not that hard to rotate” say people with deep knowledge of computers, “just get someone else to do it” say people who have a financial interest in it being that way.
Framing people with legitimate issues as weirdo’s is not as charming as you think it is.
Also the Kebap Shop probably has a form for reservation or ordering, which takes personal information.
True, they are all low risk things, but getting TLS is trivial (since many Webservers etc can do letsencrypt rotation fully automatically) and secure defaults are a good thing.
They’ve nearly all been lost to time now though, if a shop has a web-presence it will be through a provider such as “bokabord”, doordash, ubereats (as mentioned), some of whom charge up to 30% of anything booked/ordered via the web.
But, I guess no MITM can manipulate prices… except, by charging…
If you care about the integrity of the conveyed information you need TLS. If you don't, you wouldn't have published a website in the first place.
A while back I've seen a wordpress site for a podcast without https where people also argued it doesn't need it. They had banking information for donations on that site.
Sometimes I wish every party involved in transporting packets on the internet would just mangle all unencrypted http that they see, if only to make a point...
Like, "telnet textfiles.com 80" then "GET / HTTP/1.0", <enter>, "Location: textfile.com" <enter><enter> and you have the page.
What would be the point of making these unencrypted sites disappear?
I'd argue that that is a most likely objectively false statement and that the domain owner is in no position to authoritatively answer the question if it has ever served ads in that time. As it is served without TLS any party involved in the transportation of the data can mess with its content and e.g. insert ads. There are a number of reports of ISPs having done exactly that in the past, and some might still do it today. Therefore it is very likely that textfiles.com as shown in someones browser has indeed had ads at some point in time, even if the one controlling the domain didn't insert them.
Textfiles also contains donation links for PayPal and Venmo. That is an attractive target to replace with something else.
And that is precisely the point: without TLS you do not have any authority over what anyone sees when visiting your website. If you don't care about that then fine, my comment about mangling all http traffic was a bit of a hyperbole. But don't be surprised when it happens anyway and donations meant for you go to someone else instead.