According to a post on the Google Online Security Blog, beginning in January 2017 Google Chrome will begin flagging all sites that use traditional HTTP rather than HTTPS for passwords or other sensitive information as "insecure". It also indicates that Google plans to eventually start flagging ALL traditional HTTP-only sites as "insecure". While HTTPS has always made sense for truly sensitive information, a pure HTTPS web does have implications for legacy tools - essentially if anyone is not using the absolute latest of one of the "big three" web browsers, they will always potentially be just one security update away from being locked out of the web.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday September 12 2016, @12:25AM
It depends what you're looking for. I find that even just typing in error messages into the major search engines tends to be rather inconsistent. And god help you if you're looking for something more complicated or where there's multiple ways of phrasing it.
For all the efforts at making the search engines smarter, they're even dumber than they were 15 years ago.