What burden? The monetary and time cost of maintaining certificates for sites that just don't need them.

If you're worried about the government watching everything you do then get a VPN service that encrypts all traffic so they can't even see what servers you are connecting to.

Encrypting every single website is a huge burden on every single web operator.

The burden for this should be placed on each website operator, and not the end user who is browsing?

Why does everyone need more?
So many sites are read only with no exchange of data. No warning is needed for these.

It also increases costs and management overhead.
Does Fred Bloggs lyrics site need to be SSL? Probably not. But throwing a warning up is going to cause fear, uncertainty and doubt.

The people that buy 10, 20, 50 of these mispriced items and then bitch they didn't get their products....
Obviously they KNOW it's a mistake, so screw them

That people will watch it instead of something else that is also for free, or doing something else that is free, is.

Why? It's one of the highest rated shows on TV and the cast get paid a lot of money to be in it. Whether you like it is irrelevant.

You might want to check your sources there. At least two of those shows are on regular TV stations.

Except for Game of Throne, and The Walking Dead, and True Blood, and The Good Wife, and Big Bang Theory and a whole host of other shows that somehow still get made and watched.

billions still watch TV. Not quite dead yet

as with most of the features in iOS 8, android had it years ago

Yep, good luck managing dozens or hundreds of servers that only have vi on it.
Granted, it does matter what your use case is, but most boxes do not have emacs on it so the need to know that is a heck of a lot smaller in many cases.

I got that, too. The extra layer was indeed amusing

manage servers, troubleshoot network connectivity issues, etc. etc.

I know some of the aspects of managing web servers with SSL can be somewhat involved, but a basic understanding of generating a csr, requesting a cert and installing that cert should be understood at a theoretical level and the practical execution should be fairly straight forward to work through.

anyway!

that war is over, and vi won

Now, as to interviewing people for IT, who will be working on *nix, asking "emacs or vi" used to be a teasing question, now you're lucky if they know what one or both are.