When a municipal election server takes 50,000 concurrent requests for precinct tallies at 8:00 PM on a Tuesday, valid transport layer security won't stop the site from crashing. We spend our careers making sure data in transit stays encrypted, authenticated, and locked down. We configure certificates, enforce modern cipher suites, and check our SSL Labs ratings with genuine pride. Standard TLS treats any cryptographically valid handshake as a welcome guest. When those requests arrive at volumes ...