[1970-01-01]

Very nice article.

However, some very heavy firepower was glossed over.. TLS/HTTPS gave us the power to actually buy things and share secrets. The WWW would not be anywhere near this level of commercialized if we didn't have that in place.

[technion]

For a long time, the standard was that tls was only ever on the credit card submission page. I remember when "finding vulnerabilities" often mean viewing source and noting it still submitted to a uardcoded http page.

[tracker1]

Yeah... seriously surprised more services didn't go HTTPS only just for a simpler setup... the redirects/posts etc were always a mess. I know early/pre 00's hardware had more overhead for https, but even then.