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Free certificate revocations. StartSSL was crucified for charging $25 for revocations, and not waiving the fee during Heartbleed.


This, 100%. They also plan to adopt Certificate Transparency, I believe. And it'll hopefully be trivial to set up, once the scripting is all finished.

No excuses, people. Give it a few years and we'll be seriously talking about turning http: off, or at least putting security warnings on it, denying cookies and scripting, etc.

You don't still use telnet, do you?




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