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White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS

Posted by Soulskill on from the moving-at-the-speed-of-government dept.

blottsie writes: In an effort to close security gaps that have resulted in multiple security breaches of government servers, the Obama administration on Tuesday introduced a proposal to require all publicly accessible federal websites to use the HTTPS encryption standard. "The majority of federal websites use HTTP as the as primary protocol to communicate over the public Internet," reads the proposal on the website of the U.S. Chief Information Officer. "Unencrypted HTTP connections create a privacy vulnerability and expose potentially sensitive information about users of unencrypted Federal websites and services."

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  1. Breaking news: Republicans against HTTPS by Pope+Hagbard · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the wake of the Obama Administration encouraging use of HTTPS, Ted Cruz was reported as saying that encryption was a government conspiracy to deprive godfearing Americans of their privacy.

  2. According To The News by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Statistically the man in the middle is most likely to be The Man. If you're talking to The Man, he doesn't even need to be in the middle, but he probably will be anyway. If you're a government employee using one of those, you'll be The Man, talking to The Man while being spied on by The Man! Delicious!

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  3. They will all use SSL3 with RC4 by schwit1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the websites will require internet explorer.