Google Condemns the Archival Web
Doc Searls,
dsearls,
Feb 20, 2018
Doc Searls writes, "The archival Web—the one you see through the protocol HTTP—will soon be condemned, cordoned off behind Google's police tape, labeled "insecure" on every current Chrome browser... Every legacy website, nearly all of which were created with no malice, commit no fraud and distribute no malware, will become haunted houses: still there, but too scary for most people to visit." It's a problem for me because getting a certificate is neither simple nor cheap. "As Dave put it way back here, the costs are prohibitive—in time, money, hassle and all the rest." As I said in 2004, this is the 'high bar' attack on open content. The answer - for me, at least - is the free service Let's Encrypt - but I'll need the wildcard certificates, because I have a lot of different domains.
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