Thursday 28 January 2016
At the recent Usenix Enigma security conference, Google showed off its new security indicator for sites that serve content over the HTTP protocol. HTTP sites are unencrypted, which means that any data transferred between your browser and the target server can be intercepted by hackers or even government surveillance tools that are capable on snooping on your connection. HTTP, we're readying to call you out for what you are: UNSAFE! https://t.co/KuA6ARoH6n #enigma2016 https://t.co/Vs69HDZc2J — Security Princess (@laparisa) January 26, 2016 Parisa Tabriz, who manages Google’s security engineering team echoed the company’s sentiments in a tweet, linking to a proposal to…
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