EFF: How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web
How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web Way back in 2010, we launched our popular browser extension HTTPS Everywhere as part of our effort to encrypt the web . At the time, the need for HTTPS Everywhere to protect browsing sessions was as obvious as the threats were ever-present. The threats may not be as clear now, but HTTPS Everywhere is still as important to users as ever. In 2010, HTTPS Everywhere was a novel extension. It allowed users to automatically use the secure version of websites that offered both insecure HTTP and secure, encrypted HTTPS. Sites such as Google had only recently exposed to users the option to search using HTTPS . Facebook had not yet allowed users to browse the site securely. The dangers of insecure browsing were demonstrated by the powerful browser extension Firesheep , which intercepted HTTP packets and allowed attackers on the same WiFi network as their victims to hijack browsing sessions when logged in to po...