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Google to Start Punishing HTTP-Only Sites

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the there's-gotta-be-a-downside-to-this dept.

SomeGuy writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @07:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @07:54AM (#400569)

    Google was never a good search engine it was fast and had a larger index

    You haven't used Google in the 1990'es.

    Altavista had a large index. No matter what I searched for, it would give about a billion results. And the one I was looking for would be around result number 437,126,984.

    Google would return maybe a hundred results for the same search words, and the one I was looking for was often number one and nearly always on the first page of results.