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

[Jennifer Martinez]

Thank you Jared! I was hoping you'd know. I swear...i should have been my aunt's child. My uncle, who is her husband Bob, he also knows technology inside out. And I go and find myself a tech guy for myself? Yep. And how ironic. She's my aunt, but I am so much like her, that it's just odd. We have the same mannerisms. Neither one of us like for others to spend money on us, among other odd but similar character traits that she an I share. I would not want anyone here to feel threatened but my uncle Bob, he does know a lot about computer tech. My question now becomes this: it just occurred to me, as I write, that perhaps we all may benefit from Uncle Bob's wisdom. Would anyone mind if I invite him to subscribe to this here email discussion group? I can't guarantee he'll subscribe but...he might. He'd a really cool guy who could offer so much to the group. Any objections? I'm shooting myself in the foot for no thinking of inviting him to join sooner. 
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  On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:34 PM, Jared Rimer via Thesecuritybox<thesecuritybox at 986themix.com> wrote:   Oose, 2.  https: hyper text transport protocol secure

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On 10/6/2021 10:43 AM, Jared Rimer via Thesecuritybox wrote:
> Terms:
> 
> 1.  HTML: hyper text markup language
> 2.  https: hyper text transport secure
> 3. http: hyper text transport protocol
> 4.  Depreciate: discontinue
> 
> Jared Rimer
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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>
>>
>>
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