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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 25 2018, @06:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the wasn't-worth-the-work...-until-now? dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

As of today, Google begins shipping Chrome 68 which flags all sites served over the HTTP scheme as being "not secure". This is because the connection is, well, not secure so it seems like a fairly reasonable thing to say! We've known this has been coming for a long time now both through observing the changes in the industry and Google specifically saying "this is coming". Yet somehow, we've arrived at today with a sizable chunk of the web still serving traffic insecurely:

The majority of the Internet’s top 1M most popular sites will show up as “Not Secure” in @GoogleChrome starting July 24th. Make sure your site redirects to #HTTPS, so you don’t have the same problem. @Cloudflare makes it easy! #SecureOnChrome https://t.co/G2a0gi2aM8 pic.twitter.com/r2HWkfRofW

— Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) July 23, 2018

Who are these people?! After all the advanced warnings combined with all we know to be bad about serving even static sites over HTTP, what sort of sites are left that are neglecting such a fundamental security and privacy basic? I wanted to find out which is why today, in conjunction with Scott Helme, we're launching Why No HTTPS? You can find it over at WhyNoHTTPS.com (served over HTTPS, of course), and it's a who's who of the world's biggest websites not redirecting insecure traffic to the secure scheme:

The article continues with a list of "The World's Most Popular Websites Loaded Insecurely", tools and techniques used to gather the data, different responses based on the version of curl, differences accessing the bare domain name versus with the "www." prefix, and asks for any corrections. One can also access the aforementioned website set up specifically for tracking these results: https://whynohttps.com/.

Source: https://www.troyhunt.com/why-no-https-heres-the-worlds-largest-websites-not-redirecting-insecure-requests/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:53PM (#712620)

    why don't you use a whitelist for kids' internet?
    I honestly don't see any other reasonable option.
    and obviously no search engine access, since they can google/bing for porn, and the images are displayed right there in the search results.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @09:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @09:17PM (#712697)

    Try Bing Video. You can play the videos right in your browser and get past all the content blocks. We ended up blocking Bing completely for awhile where I work, took ages for someone on staff to actually notice and complain