[The security box] Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin
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On 10/6/2021 9:08 PM, Jennifer Martinez via Thesecuritybox wrote:
> 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
>
> Jared Rimer
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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
> <mailto: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
> <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
> <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/
> <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://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
> <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
> <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
> <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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#/media/File:Internet2.jpg>>/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Original Article: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812
> <https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812>
> >> <https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812
> <https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798812>>
> >>
> >>
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