EFF promises a safer web with HTTPS Everywhere

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched the first
official version of HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox plug-in which it says helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000
popular web sites…”

05 August, 2011

 EFF promises a safer web with HTTPS Everywhere | thinq_

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This entry was posted in Add-ons, Browsers, Security. Bookmark the permalink. ? Dumb People Fall For Fake Survey Firefox 6.0 Beta 5 (6.0b5) Released ?4 Responses to EFF promises a safer web with HTTPS Everywhereperson287 says:August 6, 2011 at 1:08 pm

To be honest on a load of these sites, for example bit.ly and Wikipedia, I don’t see much point in using SSL. Having said that I think it’d be a very good thing to install on a computer novice’s user’s browser to protect them more on Public WiFi, as they might not get that lots of logins are being sent in plain text for anybody to read.

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