Or maybe he’s right. But for the wrong reason.<\/p>\n
Over on Medium<\/a>, which is where I saw his post<\/a>, Dave said:<\/p>\n “The problem of requiring HTTPs in less than 140 chars: 1.Few benefits for blog-like sites, and 2. The costs are prohibitive.<\/p>\n There’s actually a #3 (sorry) — 3. For sites where the owner is gone the costs are more than prohibitive. There’s no one to do the work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While this was more-or-less true-ish in times gone by, with the advent of truly-free {{SSL}} (and not merely the manual free edition you could get from StartSSL) from Let’s Encrypt<\/a> (see my how-to<\/a>), automated, hands-off maintenance of your SSL-iness is possible (and encouraged).<\/p>\n There are, potentially, good reasons for saying SSL won’t be required. But blaming costs, upkeep, and “few benefits” are not<\/strong><\/em> among them. If anything, SSL-ifying your blog will help with\u00a0some<\/em> (not all) attacks launched against self-hosted\/-managed services where login data can be otherwise captured in plaintext.<\/p>\n Dave, I like you. But you’re wrong on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or maybe he’s right. But for the wrong reason. Over on Medium, which is where I saw his post, Dave said: “The problem of requiring HTTPs in less than 140 chars: 1.Few benefits for blog-like sites, and 2. The costs are prohibitive. There’s actually a #3 (sorry) — 3. For sites where the owner is …
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