Phoronix reports the Mozilla Security Engineering team is planning to make their browser useless for browsing much of the World Wide Web, by deprecating insecure HTTP.
Richard Barnes of Mozilla writes:
In order to encourage web developers to move from HTTP to HTTPS, I would like to propose establishing a deprecation plan for HTTP without security. Broadly speaking, this plan would entail limiting new features to secure contexts, followed by gradually removing legacy features from insecure contexts. Having an overall program for HTTP deprecation makes a clear statement to the web community that the time for plaintext is over -- it tells the world that the new web uses HTTPS, so if you want to use new things, you need to provide security.
See also this document outlining the initial plans.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Tork on Wednesday April 15 2015, @07:20AM
Reading the news or some static page about gardening or the news hardly warrants the effort.
Isn't the point that even seemingly innocuous information captured via a method like this could be used against you?
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:43AM
Precisely. An example: if someone has a habit of reading articles about coming out of the closet, it's certainly not a crime, but it still might be something they'd rather want kept secret.