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Honoring Peter Eckersley, Who Made the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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What Jamie wrote

Even if you have never heard of Eckersley, you have benefited greatly from the work that he led with many others at the EFF and Let's Encrypt. I believe that Let's Encrypt should be recognized for the amazing impact it has had to make the web more secure. Before Let's Encrypt setting up HTTPS was hard and expensive. Let's Encrypt changed that entirely.

As of today [Let's Encrypt] has issued over a billion certificates to over 280 million websites.

The web is a safer, more secure, more private place because of the work that Eckersley led. Also see message from the Let's Encrypt Community.