Let’s Encrypt: Securing the Web
Setting aside Free Market myths & securing the web
Ever since Google started to demoting sites that don’t use https aka secure socket layers (SSL/TLS). There has been a huge debate about Certificate Authorities and whether or not to use Let’s Encrypt, the free service that provides SSL.
Before you choose whether or not to buy an SSL, you should consider asking the question of “who benefits”? You, the SSL company or everyone?
Asking the question, “who benefits?”
This is honestly the most important question any rational adult should ask about pretty much anything and no fictional character puts it better than Little Finger from Game of Thrones.
For-profit Certificate Authorities like DigiCert, VeriSign, Godaddy, etc they are selling a service and betting on a few things for that service to be successful:
a). you don’t understand SSL
b). you’ll pay for convenience
c). you buy into free-market myths about competition making things magically better.
