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Very underrated pioneer in a lot of areas.

I find it sad that people would down-vote this. Regardless of how you feel about him personally, it'd be a different and far more silo'd internet without him.

I think his dust up with Google re HTTPS rubbed a bunch of people the wrong way. On one level, he's of an age where good intent was assumed on the web, so security wasn't a big concern.

(On that note, ask John Siracusa how it felt to have TTYs @ BU be "world-writable" in 1993)

On the other hand, that world is largely gone and the web is much more fraught with peril these days.

In case anyone is wondering, this is the FAQ on Google and HTTP.

http://this.how/googleAndHttp

As far as I know they've never responded.

Firefox doesn't make it's decisions based on the same criteria as Google, but: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/18/still-not-using-...

What are your thoughts on that?

I think this is the problem with letting the tech industry take ownership of open formats and protocols.

Great writeup!

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