Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like

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."

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Re:Much needed extension

[Fnkmaster]

Hmm... if you are trying to encrypt your communications with *Facebook* something tells me you are worrying about the wrong people getting their hands on your personal data.

Re:Default to HTTP?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're on a network that my traffic to and from Slashdot passes through, knock yourself out. It will give you the ability to post as me, but not much more.

Oh, wait, you are already posting as me. Bastard.

Re:noscript?

[Dishevel]

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of websites in this country. Slashdot was the website to comment on. Then the other guy came out with https. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called httpss. That's got double t's and double s's. For security. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four s's. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling tdouble t's and double s's. Securitye or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five s's. Sure, we could go to four s's next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker algorithm and call it the slashdot htppssss. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why! You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-s's game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Slashdot is the best a man can get. What part of this don't you understand? If two s's is good, and three s's is better, obviously five s's would make us the best fucking website that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the website game by clinging to the two-s's industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five s's is the biggest chance of all. Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent—I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more s's in there. I don't care how. Make the s's so thin they're invisible. Put some after the /. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth s in perpendicular to the other four, just do it! You're taking the "safety" part of "safety website" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make website history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that five s's can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the five-s website becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we shave now" A. People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at Norelco, working on fucking electrics. Rotary s's, my white ass! Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in facebook's wake and make social networking sites. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like Facebook is the day I leave the website game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die! The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, commenting with anything less than five s's is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet." Or "You'll be so smooth, I could snort lines off of your chin." Try "Your neck is going to be so friggin' soft, someone's gonna walk up and tie a goddamn Cub Scout kerchief under it." I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Slashdot is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, five s's, sweet Jesus in heaven. Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another PGP key on that fucker, too. That's right. Five s's, two security algoritims, and make the second one PGP. You heard me—the second bit of security is PGP. It's a whole new way to think about commenting. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge—the website's edge—and I feel like dancing.

Re:noscript?

[Beardo the Bearded]

I got the Onion reference. This would have been an Epic FP.