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Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like

Posted by timothy on from the effin'-sweet dept.

climenole writes "HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS."

2 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. Vaporware? by tkjtkj · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "No results found." (returned by Firefox's 'Add-on' search)

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    "There are 11 kinds of people: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who could not care less!"
  2. HTTPS costs money by tepples · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Anonymous Coward wrote:

    So I guess you'd be ok with just telling me your login and password, rather than making me go through the effort to sniff them, right?

    So I guess you'd be OK with buying an SSL certificate and an SSL-compatible (unique IPv4 address) hosting plan for every blog, forum, and wiki out there, right?