Reply to post: Why?

Obama issues HTTPS-only order to US Federal sysadmins

John Robson Silver badge

Why?

Not everything I use (UK) government websites for needs encryption (in fact the majority of it doesn't)

Certainly tax returns etc need to be secured, but checking the requirements for various items (passport application, driving license application, various benefits and tax breaks) would benefit more from a simple page, and a local cache than they would from encryption...

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