Mercury

[Matthew Graybosch]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:26:59 -0500
"Case Duckworth" <acdw at acdw.net> wrote:

> remember how much work was put into the public education part of
> looking to the little green lock at the address bar of browsers, and
> how long it took for most of the web (even now, not all of it's
> https) to switch to https? I'm not even really a developer and I
> remember seeing headline after headline, blogpost after blogpost,
> begging authors to switch to https -- and even now, it's a patchwork. 

I remember, and I'd rather not repeat that bit of history.

I don't want to say that Mercury is a bad idea because I'm not really
qualified to make that judgment. However, I *will* say that I won't
support protocols that don't require encrypted connections, whether
over TLS, SSH, or something that replaces these 20 years from now.

I don't want to serve my own stuff in the clear, and if I'm
providing hosting to other people I don't want to serve their stuff
in the clear either. It's just not safe. 

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