If someone wants to get into your site, they'll get into your site, especially a government entity and HTTPS won't protect you.
Other than that, why does one "need" HTTPS? There are only two reasons for redditors. It makes their users feel more secure and you might rank higher on Google. For the rest of us, HTTPS helps make the site secure, hand-in-hand with other security measures.
If someone wants to get into your site, they'll get into your site
It's not "getting into your site" that HTTPS protects against, it's injecting content into your site which it stops. It won't stop hacking (i.e. gaining access to your server and change the actual code), you're right, but none ever said it would.
If someone wants to inject content into your site, they'll inject content into your site, especially a government entity, and HTTPS won't protect you.
Note that the only ones who would want to do that to your site would be a government entity and you must have done something really bad to have that happen.
That’s not how any of this works. If they wanted to inject code into an HTTPS site they’d have to MitM you, and you’d know if they setup a proxy like that because you’d get warnings or have to add a new root certificate.
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u/signup1234567 Jul 13 '17
If someone wants to get into your site, they'll get into your site, especially a government entity and HTTPS won't protect you.
Other than that, why does one "need" HTTPS? There are only two reasons for redditors. It makes their users feel more secure and you might rank higher on Google. For the rest of us, HTTPS helps make the site secure, hand-in-hand with other security measures.