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

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 isostatic on Monday September 12 2016, @02:39PM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday September 12 2016, @02:39PM (#400731) Journal

    I used to use google, and never felt the need to go elsewhere

    However in a vain attempt to reclaim some control over my online presence I moved to DDG. It works half the time, maybe even most of the time.

    Here's a query I just used though

    tuc conference 2016

    As I wanted to know when it's finished.
    https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/congress-2016 [tuc.org.uk]

    Would be a page I expect to come up with - which is the page for the TUC conference 2016.

    DDG comes up with
    https://www.tuc.org.uk/equality-issues/gender-equality/tuc-womens-conference [tuc.org.uk]

    Which is a conference from 2015. Second result was the TUC homepage, and it's not until about result 8 that the TUC 2016 conference is mentioned, and it's a copy of the program.

    Google comes up with the right page as the first result.

    lib dem conference 2016

    comes up with the right result on DDG, so no need to go to google for that.

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