[nottorp]

Wrong metaphor though?

How does SSL on a -ing public site protect you from being arrested by miniluv?

It’s public, you want everyone to see the cat photos, that’s why you set up the site. On the contrary, SSL certs mean another party through which miniluv can track you. They prove or are supposed to prove identity not hide it.

[ptsd_isv]

Sorry that wasn’t particularly clear, I was taking more about the general advantageous nature of normalising encryption.

WRT to another party to track you, one of the benefits of LE is that you only need to provide proof of domain ownership (eg dns txt) so the only tie back to you is whatever information you give to the registrar that you have to provide anyway.