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Happy birthday to Let's Encrypt !

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[–] cron 7 points 2 days ago

I'm so thankful for what Let's Encrypt did for the internet.10 or 15 years ago it was as easy as installing an app to steal credentials from all other users on the local lan.

Certificates were expensive and complicated, and not many used them.