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 Justin Case on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:06AM
Good idea, as long as it is done gradually with plenty of notice to web owners and browser users.
There's an ocean of broken incompetent obsolete unmaintained cruft out there that frankly needs to go away. And yeah if your printer doesn't accept https connections to its admin interface I'm talking to you.
Encrypt everything. It's time.