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Google Chrome Will Mark Non-HTTPS Sites as "Not Secure" Starting in July 2018

posted by mrpg on Friday February 09 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-ftp dept.

takyon writes:

Google Chrome will begin to mark all HTTP sites as "not secure" starting in July 2018. This is just a warning displayed in the URL bar and won't stop users from loading the pages:

For the past several years, we've moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, we've also helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as "not secure". Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure".

Also at TechCrunch and The Verge.

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday February 10 2018, @01:45AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 10 2018, @01:45AM (#635834) Journal

    I want my essays on mental illness to be accessible to readers who don't have https-capable browsers

    That sounds like a great reason not to require https (or other non-universal features).

    Not so much a great reason not to even so much as provide https.

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