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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: 2) by TheRaven on Monday September 12 2016, @09:20AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday September 12 2016, @09:20AM (#400599) Journal
    Whenever DDG doesn't find what I'm looking for, I send the query to Google and Bing (which DDG makes easy - just stick !bing or !google in the search box). I've recently done that quite a bit, as I've been searching for things that don't appear to exist on the web (anyone know how to get an Asus TF700T out of an infinite reboot loop with the stock firmware?). I see a fairly consistent result: if something isn't in DDG, I get no results from DDG. I then get pages and pages of irrelevant results from Google and Bing. A couple of months ago, Bing actually did find the result that I was looking for, when neither DDG nor Google did, but I still can't bring myself to consider using Bing as a default search engine.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @11:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @11:46AM (#400638)

    "just stick !bing or !google in the search box"

    !g works as a shorthand for !google.
    I also often use !gm (Google Maps), !gscholar, !gtranslate, !w (Wikipedia)...

    (Just checked, !b works as !bing.)

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday September 12 2016, @01:54PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Monday September 12 2016, @01:54PM (#400702) Journal
      Thanks! I use !wiki a lot, !w will save lots of typing.
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