Making the web proprietary, step by step
February 2, 2023•130 words
HTTPS everywhere made the web less free1 by requiring you to register with a trusted authority for your certificate.
Requiring passkeys to realize the wet dream of single sign-on and allowing corporations to decide whether you are allowed to use services not related to them at all is a step in the same misguided direction.
Tech bros and the security furries pretend not to see this.2
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see the linked posts by Dave Winer3 in this (unconvincing) rebuttal: https://ioptconsulting.com/in-defense-of-https-everywhere/ ↩
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as usual, turning everything into a religion seems second nature to them; just look at the title of this piece: https://scotthelme.co.uk/https-anti-vaxxers/ ↩
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who is happy with the Twitter blocking finger if you deviate from the political mainstream, which is kind of a bummer, since he has good views regarding technology ↩