From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 05:37:13 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] unix "awesome list" In-Reply-To: <92064c68-1ab9-085f-3259-10efdf94da11@kilonet.net> References: <20180508151722.49CFC18C079@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <92064c68-1ab9-085f-3259-10efdf94da11@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 8 May 2018, Arthur Krewat wrote: > I have a (very) small website in http that has a few TOPS-10 items for > download. That doesn't need to be https, but for some reason, I've heard > that Google will lower my rankings because I'm not using https. What > tomfoolery is this? I'll bet my website (about a few feet away from me) is smaller still :-) But yeah. I've been told that I *need* HTTPS, even though the damned site is purely passive... -- Dave Horsfall BSc DTM (VK2KFU) -- FuglySoft -- Gosford IT -- Unix/C/Perl (AbW) People who fail to / understand security / surely will suffer. (tks: RichardM)