<story><title>WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/wordpress-com-turns-on-https-encryption-for-all-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>There should still exist one well-known unencrypted page. Sometimes, I need to log in to hotel or airport wifi and therefore need to accept a MitM attack. I would prefer this not to be the case.</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>Kudos to the Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt and Wordpress teams. This is what the future looks like. Every webpage needs to be encrypted, and http (as opposed to https) needs to go the way of telnet (as compared to ssh).&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s particularly great is that there is no configuration of any kind for Wordpress authors or their readers. Like they have done, we need to always default to secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>Apple products use this one for hotspot detection:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;captive.apple.com&amp;#x2F;hotspot-detect.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;captive.apple.com&amp;#x2F;hotspot-detect.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just have it bookmarked now.  It&amp;#x27;s the one bookmark I use.</text></comment>
<story><title>WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/wordpress-com-turns-on-https-encryption-for-all-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>There should still exist one well-known unencrypted page. Sometimes, I need to log in to hotel or airport wifi and therefore need to accept a MitM attack. I would prefer this not to be the case.</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>Kudos to the Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt and Wordpress teams. This is what the future looks like. Every webpage needs to be encrypted, and http (as opposed to https) needs to go the way of telnet (as compared to ssh).&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s particularly great is that there is no configuration of any kind for Wordpress authors or their readers. Like they have done, we need to always default to secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Hotel or airport wifi operates in that way because they can do so without inconvenience too many customers. If it becomes too cumbersome that they need to send in a technician every time a customer is not a sysadministrator who can figure out how to get the wifi to work, then market forces will make sure that they use something else.</text></comment>