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by xp84 679 days ago
For most purposes, when wishing for non-HTTPS, we are talking about development or maybe a staging server of some sort. Maybe if we had state secrets people would be trying to plug into the lan to snoop the traffic, but for 99.99% of developers the traffic between a testing instance and them is the most worthless thing ever. Worst case you might find out what features we will release to the app in 2 weeks. The conflation of “SSL” with “cybersecurity” is unfortunate.