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HTTPS Everywhere now supports over 2,000 websites on Firefox and is now available on Chrome, too

Ashraf October 10, 2012 2

Last year dotTech reviewed an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere developed by the folks at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project. For those that aren’t familiar with it, HTTPS Everywhere forces the use of HTTPS (instead of HTTP) on websites, when available.

The kicker is HTTPS Everywhere needs to [...]

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[Firefox] HTTPS Everywhere automatically encrypts the web by forcing websites to use HTTPS

Ashraf August 11, 2011 4
[Firefox] HTTPS Everywhere automatically encrypts the web by forcing websites to use HTTPS

To S or not to S, that is the question; the S in HTTP vs HTTPS, that is. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the English of the Internet (or Internets, depending on who you are talking to). HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure; it takes HTTP [...]

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