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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:09AM
Mozilla prefers to make a thinly-veiled thin-client for social media sites? Screw them.
Check your privilege and educate yourself. Social media is one of the great ways voices from the margins are heard on the Internet. Mozilla, by standing up for the silenced and fostering an inclusive community, adds far more value to society than many imagine.
(Score: 5, Touché) by kaszz on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:15AM
It may also be of marginal value to read those voices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @02:42AM
If you're in a democracy those voices often matter about as much your voice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:58PM
A Poe's law post if I have ever seen one.