Comment by endofreach
2 years ago
Let's encrypt has done great work with certs for free. But they do still cost money. Insane for how long unencrypted traffic was the default. But i could not have done anything, if browsers had soft-enforced https earlier. I simply could not have paid that money.
You and everyone else: unencrypted stopped being the default as a pretty direct consequence of increased accessibility of TLS certificates.
Yeah in late 90s telnet to server was the default. So all those delicious cli were just flowing in the Ethernet traffic in plain text.
You could get free SSL certs before LE. What LE changed was making it possible to fully automate the process.
How do they still cost money?