René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"More Costs, More Barriers, No Accountability? Oh my!","articleBody":"I am all for https when it is needed, but a blanket mandate would have the following repercussions off the top of my head.\n\n1) Cost -- Has there been some basic analysis in terms of the cost of implementation? The total amount would be quite shocking to the American taxpayer, I think.\n\n2) Roadblock to Embracing SaaS -- This would be (yet) another roadblock in having government websites embrace SaaS / web services which often rely on CNAMEs for domain masking (which can make https difficult and / expensive).\n\n3) Lack of Accountability -- If an application that should be running https is not (and what is this number -- government web sites generally serve static content), then someone should make that one application adhere to https with some major punishment for the potential breach of trust with the public. \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ErikSArnold","@type":"Person","name":"ErikSArnold"},"datePublished":"2015-03-25T20:19:22.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/89/https/issues/89"}