HTTPS flaunts its lock while SSL hides inside a fuzzy winter hat

Description

The meme is split into two horizontal panels. Top panel: two construction workers in hard hats stand at a snowy construction site, their faces blurred for anonymity. Over the left person is a green closed-padlock icon labeled “HTTPS”, while over the right person is a yellow open-padlock icon labeled “HTTP”, visually echoing browser security indicators. Bottom panel: a plush, circular fur hat sits on a box; centered on the hat is a shield icon containing the text “SSL”. The visual joke contrasts the obvious ‘locked’ security of HTTPS with the outdated, comfort-blanket notion of SSL, poking fun at developers who conflate SSL with modern TLS and at superficial understandings of web transport security

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Https Http WebSecurity Tls DeveloperHumor TechHumor TechMeme

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Rolling out TLS 1.3 with HSTS and OCSP stapling, then hearing the VP boast we just “turned on SSL” - I feel like that furry hat: warm, obsolete, yet somehow still on the roadmap

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Rolling out TLS 1.3 with HSTS and OCSP stapling, then hearing the VP boast we just “turned on SSL” - I feel like that furry hat: warm, obsolete, yet somehow still on the roadmap
Anonymous

The real warmth isn't from the fur hat - it's from knowing your SSL certificate won't expire on a Friday afternoon while you're already three beers into happy hour, triggering a cascade of monitoring alerts and angry customer emails about 'Your connection is not private' warnings
Anonymous

This perfectly captures the awkward conversation every senior engineer has had: explaining to stakeholders that 'SSL certificates' actually use TLS, HTTPS is the application protocol, and SSL 3.0 was deprecated in 2015. But sure, let's keep calling them SSL certs because changing terminology would require updating 10,000 internal wiki pages and retraining the entire organization. At least the padlock icons make management feel secure, even if they're still running TLS 1.0 in production
Anonymous

Enterprise security: HTTPS at the edge for the green lock, HTTP behind the LB, and a warm hat labeled “SSL” to pass the audit
Anonymous

Nothing says “we’re secure” like a press photo with padlock icons and an “SSL” hat - meanwhile the wire negotiates TLS 1.3, HSTS isn’t enabled, OCSP isn’t stapled, and half the assets still load over http
Anonymous

HTTP's the coat keeping connections intact; SSL's the ushanka warding off MITM chills - until cert expiry turns prod into a freezer burn
@iolebedev 3y

This is a wrong metaphor: (1) It is HTTP inside SSL, SSL is a wrapper. On this picture SSL is inside, which is wrong. (2) Choosing from a helm and a hat - its the hat that gives protection, so they are both protected. The hat is more like GRPC inside HTTPS...
1. @kitbot256 3y
  
  Could it be they are really seeking protection from cold weather? ;)
  
  @iolebedev 3y
  
  Yes. My point was that using SSL as a metaphor here is wrong. Cold weather is the bare meaning as it is.
@doodguy1991 3y

"But I'm not a rapper"
@x24R3 3y

SSL
1. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  ok send your login data via http and we'll see how quickly that alufoil hat becomes relevant
  
  @x24R3 3y
  
  Calm down, i think that the hat which hides your thoughts perfectly depicts encryption
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  I was joking around alufoil hats are usually used as a depiction of something that gives the illusion of safety though
  
  @x24R3 3y
  
  Nah, they are real
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  Don't they absorb microvawes?
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y

var handler = new HttpClientHandler(); handler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback = (sender, cert, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true; var client = new HttpClient(handler); var response = await client.GetAsync("https://bank.gov.us");