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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 wonkey_monkey on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:39PM
No, Mozilla hasn't decided to immediately cut off HTTP.
I never said they were going to do it immediately, but other than that you're right that I was way too hasty with my post (and with my reading of the OP's meaning), and looking again I'm also a little surprised I managed to get +5 Insightful so quickly (or at all).
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