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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."

3 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. Default to HTTP? by SpazmodeusG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geez. What kind of poorly written site would do something like quietly defaulting to unencrypted HTTP on a HTTPS request.

    https://www.slashdot.org/

  2. Does what it sounds like... by Nick+Fel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...except not "everywhere", just major sites.

  3. Re:Does NOT work for Slashdot.org by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's a subscriber feature.

    So to narrow down people posting politically sensitive stories (say, whistle-blower type stories) from a country, it is merely necessary to cross check banking records against payments to Slashdot. Slashdot should know better.