White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:40AM 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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Oh the irony! by denis-The-menace · 2015-03-17 10:42 · Score: 1, Interesting

It hurts right in the NSA

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Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
Re:Not just for government. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-17 11:27 · Score: 2, Interesting

The concept of only some information being private is broken.
Government CIO using GitHub? by Nkwe · 2015-03-17 11:47 · Score: 3, Interesting

Interestingly the "edit this page" link on the CIO page (linked in the article) takes you to GitHub. Is our government actually taking advantage of existing services instead of wasting all kinds of money developing their own content management system? Maybe there is hope.