As years went by, we tried so hard to push everybody towards encrypting everything. Just in case. Of course, whenever I see a HTTP (no S here) form asking you for password, or credit card details, I don’t know whether to be angry, or to feel sympathy for those who are unable to set up simple encryption. And yes, it was very hard to do encryption in the past. It consumed CPU, memory, other valuable resources, and was not even widely supported. The first web pages ever were created way before SSL was even thought of, as were the first browsers. There started to be educational campaigns (which I am a very keen advocate of), like natashenka’s (my personal favourite), or Let’s Encrypt’s, or Google’s. ...