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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It felt like it happened practically overnight when Let's Encrypt released.

[–] Chobbes 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's Encrypt was a godsend. Getting a TLS certificate before sucked.

[–] kautau 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Thank these folks:

Mozilla employees Josh Aas and Eric Rescorla, together with Peter Eckersley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and J. Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan. Internet Security Research Group, the company behind Let's Encrypt, was incorporated in May 2013.

They created the ACME standard, the open source community got on board, and soon enough everyone bought in, a massive step forward for Internet security and the benefit of open source.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So Firefox is basically the GOAT when it comes to internet security and privacy? They should team up with the signal guys.