How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
<i>Facebook eventually addressed the issue by making the site accessible over HTTPS—though, as the authors of the 2008 paper note, HTTPS can be a "rigid and costly" solution.</i><p>This same excuse has existed for about as long as HTTPS, which dates to Netscape Navigator 1.  Is it still that "rigid and costly"?  Is there a technical reason that this is an unsolvable problem?<p>Considering the increase in computer and network speed over the last decade and a half, it seems strange that this would still be the case.  Perhaps it's just that without pressure from competitors there is no pressure on the sites to solve it?