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5-10 years and http:// http:// will be as rare as having a lottery jackpot. our kids kids will ask - what is this http? like our kids did with floppy disks...
by schallertd 10y ago
5-10 years and http:// http:// will be as rare as having a lottery jackpot. our kids kids will ask - what is this http? like our kids did with floppy disks...
- breakingcups 10y agoI'm guessing in 10 years Chrome will refuse to connect to http hosts, given Google's track record of aggressively unilaterally deprecating and disabling web features they consider harmful.
- noenpnqnoen 10y agoThat would break all Tor hidden services web servers (except Facebook).
- drdaeman 10y ago5 years? Don't see any chance for extinction. There are tons of non-HTTPS websites out there. A myriad of forsaken ones that are still running because no one had remembered to do anything to them, and a myriad of ones whose sysadmins just don't care about TLS at all. A non-obtrusive "insecure connection" warning is probably going to happen quite soon, but I just don't see any chance of mass HTTPS migration besides the high-profile sites, newborn sites and geeks that would stand for the cause. Otherwise, a pretty large fraction of the WWW is going to be lost.