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jovial_cavalieryesterday at 7:50 PM1 replyview on HN

That's not new, LetsEncrypt just didn't solve it. And if you think this is the only single point of failure in the stack, I have news for you.


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greyface-yesterday at 7:53 PM

It's absolutely new. No HTML5 features were restricted to secure origins only pre-LE. Today, many are. Google was able to push these requirements in large part due to Let's Encrypt's success making secure origins ubiquitous.

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