[The security box] Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin

[Jared Rimer]

Terms:

1.  HTML: hyper text markup language
2.  https: hyper text transport secure
3. http: hyper text transport protocol
4.  Depreciate: discontinue

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On 10/6/2021 10:32 AM, Jennifer Martinez via Thesecuritybox wrote:
> Ok. I'm going to play stupid for a minute. What is depreciate? Is it not 
> to make something worth less? Obsolete? Or worthless, as in zero value? 
> What exactly...how exactly will this impact internet travel to the 
> current http(s)? What is http anyway? Does anyone know what 
> http(s)...what does it actually stand for? I know html stands for 
> hyper-text-media-link? What then is http? 
> Hyper-text-telecommunication-portal? Is that right? Anyone know for sure?
> 
> Jen
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>     On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:29 PM, Michael Brock via Thesecuritybox
>     <thesecuritybox at 986themix.com> wrote:
> 
>     Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin
>     Ars Technica  /  Jim Salter
> 
>     All four major browsers have duplicated HTTPS Everywhere
>     functionality natively.
>     Rising line graph.
>     Enlarge
>     <https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/httparchive-report.png>
>     / We had trouble even finding HTTPS statistics earlier than 2016—but
>     even in 2016, fewer than one in four websites were delivered via HTTPS.
> 
>     Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced
>     <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere> that
>     it will deprecate its HTTPS Everywhere browser plugin
>     <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/>
>     in 2022. Engineering director Alexis Hancock summed it up in the
>     announcement's own title: "HTTPS is actually everywhere."
> 
>     The EFF originally launched
>     <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encrypt-web-https-everywhere-firefox-extension> HTTPS
>     Everywhere—a plugin that automatically upgrades HTTP connections to
>     HTTPS—in 2010 as a stopgap measure for a world that was still
>     getting accustomed to the idea of encrypting all web-browser traffic.
> 
>     When the plugin was new, the majority of the Internet was served up
>     in plaintext—vulnerable to both snooping and manipulation by any
>     entity that could place itself between a web-browsing user and the
>     web servers they communicated with. Even banking websites frequently
>     offered unencrypted connections! Thankfully, the web-encryption
>     landscape has changed dramatically in the 11 years since then.
> 
>     We can get some idea of just how far the protocol has come by
>     looking at HTTP Archive's State of the Web report
>     <https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web#pctHttps>. In
>     2016—six years after HTTPS Everywhere first launched—the HTTP
>     Archive recorded encrypted connections for fewer than one site in
>     every four it crawled. In the five years since, that number has
>     skyrocketed—as of July, the Archive crawls nine of every 10 sites
>     via HTTPS. (Google's Transparency Report
>     <https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview> shows a
>     similar progression, using data submitted by Chrome users.)
> 
>     Although the increased organic HTTPS adoption influenced the EFF's
>     decision to deprecate the plugin, it's not the only reason. More
>     importantly, automated upgrade from HTTP to HTTPS is now available
>     natively in all four major consumer browsers—Microsoft Edge, Apple
>     Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.
> 
>     Unfortunately, Safari is still the only mainstream browser to force
>     HTTPS traffic by default—which likely informed the EFF's decision to
>     retire HTTPS Everywhere until /next/ year. Firefox and Chrome offer
>     a native "HTTPS Only" mode that must be user-enabled, and Edge
>     offers an experimental "Automatic HTTPS" as of Edge 92.
> 
>     If you'd like to enable HTTPS Only/Automatic HTTPS natively in your
>     browser of choice today, we recommend visiting the EFF's own
>     announcement
>     <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere>,
>     which includes both step-by-step instructions and animated
>     screenshots for each browser. After enabling your browser's native
>     HTTPS upgrade functionality, you can safely disable the
>     soon-to-be-deprecated HTTPS Everywhere plugin.
> 
>     /Listing image by Rock1997 / Wikipedia
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#/media/File:Internet2.jpg>/
> 
> 
> 
>     Original Article: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812
>     <https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812>
> 
> 
>     Michael Brock
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