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Chrome to mark http sites "Not Secure"

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From July on, Chrome will brand plain old HTTP as “Not secure”

alas

when a site is marked "secure" it just means some "ca" someplace issued the authors a "certificate"

every one of us has piles and piles of these x.509 "certificates" -- all "validated" by some certificate "authority". can any of us tell by looking which are actually valid ? maybe some of us might but generally i think the idea is hopeless.

what we should do: sign the certificates ourselves. this won't be as bad as it might appear since each of us generally will have only a dozen or so certs that actually need to be counter-signed. for these we need to verify the fingerprint and then sign the cert. with our own key. it won't really be all that hard although I will concede many of us will probably need a user-friendly program to help. and some help from key resources-- like the Credit Union etc.
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