The fact that 23 percent of American women between the ages of forty and fifty-nine take SSRIs may have less to say about this group’s propensity for depression than it does about the way our society currently responds to women between forty and fifty-nine.
-Douglas Rushkoff
What’s interesting about the case of Mozilla and Firefox is that it shows that a non-profit (sort of) company can be just as clueless and treat its users and biggest supporters just as poorly as any completely for-profit capitalist multi-tentacled monstrosity.
The reason that there is not widespread SSL adoption is that not every fucking thing needs to be encrypted.
Your cat photos? Don’t need encryption. Your blog? Same. Only about 10% of traffic actually needs encryption.
Requiring encryption is just as stupid as what Firefox is doing with its extension model.
Also, it uses much more compute and thus much more power. Wastes literally megawatts of energy a year and increasing as it trundles towards ubiquity.