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Why Let’s Encrypt Is A Step In The Right Direction Of CyberSecurity
A response to John Hurst’s opinion article claiming LE is a Bad Idea.
5 min readJul 1, 2019
A couple of days ago, I read John’s article explaining why, in his opinion, Let’s Encrypt is a bad idea.
You can read that article here:
As I understood from John’s replies to angry comments, the article was designed to arouse discussion around the topic — which he has successfully done. I would have taken a different route to reach his desired effect, but what’s done is done.
The purpose of this article is to explain why John’s argument doesn’t stand, explain why Let’s Encrypt is actually awesome, and then offer a takeaway to the real concern John tried to gain more awareness on.
Let’s begin, shall we?
The fundamental reason why John’s argument doesn’t stand
John links a real concern in the world of cybersecurity to a disastrous event that he claims Let’s Encrypt to…
