The Certificate Authority Browser Forum has officially blessed us with the internet equivalent of mandatory daily dental flossing: SSL certificates that expire every 47 days by 2029. That’s right. The same certificates that currently give you a comfortable 398 days to procrastinate are about to need replacing—to abuse my dental hygiene conceit—more often than your| console.log()
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.| Aral Balkan
Privacy is intrinsically intertwined with politics. Each change in governance can have serious effects on privacy rights and privacy tools, for better or for worse. Let's examine with concrete examples how politics affect legislations that can have an immense impact on the privacy tools and features we use.| Privacy Guides
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