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Mozilla is getting a lot of criticism, but just for letsencrypt alone they are making the world a better place.

Before them I never used SSL for anything, because the cost/benefit ratio was just not there for my services.

Since then, I never not use it.

Two Mozilla employees were involved in starting Let's Encrypt, and the Mozilla foundation is one of the sponsors, but as far as I can tell the foundation was not directly involved in creating it.

One of the more productive uses of all those millions of dollars that Mozilla received. These days, Let's Encrypt is more important than Mozilla... and would have no difficulty receiving donations to keep the service running. It also shows what a well run technical non-profit looks like!

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