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from the it's-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine dept.
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: 2) by Jaruzel on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:22PM
Yeah, slip up on my part saying Verisign - I used to use them exclusively in a previous job so typed it on auto-pilot.
If you see my other post, I mention that I too also use StartSSL. However for laypeople their process is quite complex, and the free cert is restrictive and needs renewing every year.
-Jar
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.