The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:15PM (2 children)
Thanks for that info.
Could you use a generated self-signed cert. for your LAN https?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Pino P on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:44AM (1 child)
Yes, provided two things:
1. All devices capable of accessing resources on your network are capable of bypassing unknown issuer warnings or installing a private CA's root certificate.
2. All your users are willing to take such measures.
Say you store videos on a NAS on your home LAN, and you've invited friends or relatives to enter your home and view videos. If they are non-technical users, an unknown issuer warning might scare them off.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday November 05 2017, @02:06AM
Thanks again.
Or, they may do what most people I know of do: "Sure, I'll accept that certificate! Certificates are a good thing- I have many I'm proud of!"