Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
How about we solve the "certificate" situation first?<p>I've just paid lots of money for "certificates". I quote the word, because they don't actually certify or even signify anything. The whole procedure for "domain-verification" is a joke, and many outfits are incompetently run (their "verification" e-mails bounced from my servers because they ended up in RBL, which nobody seemed fit to correct).<p>I see this as a scam, or extortion — pay up, or you won't be "certified". And pay up significant amounts of money, if you want a wildcard cert.<p>If we care about encryption just for the sake of encryption, let's change our browsers to allow self-signed certificates. Label them as such, but don't label them as "unsecure", because the padlock icon really isn't any more secure than a self-signed cert.