It might be a case of having to though as adoption nears full scale. Why would you be against something securing the site further? Also why no certificate update, they're easy enough to obtain?
I'll cross the bridge of having to do when I come to it. If it ever becomes a necessary requirement to use the internet, then I'll see. It won't prevent the issues I'm concerned with as we stand. I'm not against it,
I just can't be bothered. I'm not having a go btw, I'm just curious as to why? My only concern is that you seem happy for the site traffic to be diverted anywhere and for any use?
I know you're not having a go, I'm not either. It's a friendly discussion and it's all good.
Please see bold part of reply above as to why.
And if site traffic is being diverted elsewhere then I'll worry about it when that happens. The scenario you describe will either be a hack server-side, or on a users computer. HTTPS wouldn't prevent either.
Each to their own. I just thought it was an important matter and the users of the site should be aware.
No worries.
You might not care but you have a duty of care to the users of the site, as a minimum.
Nope. People are capable of looking after themselves. I don't need to protect them from the internet boogieman. I have many websites, all of which have survived without SSL for a long time. The same as I have several that get hacked regularly, but for the most part those hacks are completely and utterly inert and none have any affect on users at all.
People scarily don't know enough about this stuff yet are using it every day. On a further note, we could all be being backdoored and not be aware of it.
People don't. But it's nowhere near as bad as you make out. And the the majority of people "being backdoored" from websites are people visiting websites they shouldn't and people with little to no knowledge of computers coupled with going bareback. This isn't 15 years ago when no one had firewalls or antivirus and downloaded screensavers and all manner of crap.
Besides, "being backdoored" wouldn't be stopped by SSL, it'd hopefully be stopped by securing your own computer though.
All the SSL is doing is encrypting the passageway between the user and the server. It doesn't stop the server getting hacked. It doesn't stop the user getting a virus. It doesn't stop the user getting fucked by a hacked site or server. It just means it fucks you while encrypted.