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We only disabled SSL on all the websites in one country for a little bit.. I'm sure those credit card numbers were perfectly safe over the wire


They didn't disable SSL you dingus.


it was an analogy to try highlighting how silly "security" is when it's opt-in and any intermediary can just disable it


I'm not sure you know how analogies work


That comparison really makes the contrast clear: losing TLS would’ve put millions of people either into full downtime or immediately at significant risk (you can’t uncapture data). Losing DNSSEC, however, placed no one at risk and improved uptime.

There’s a reason why one of the two has roughly 10% adoption after three decades and the other is high 90-something percent.




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