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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday April 15 2015, @04:52AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by skater on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:05PM

    by skater (4342) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:05PM (#170988) Journal

    Unfortunately, self-signed certs generate all kinds of scary warnings in today's browsers, too. Again, the browsers seem to be written with Amazon/CNN/etc. in mind, and not with mom and pop hobby website. There should be a focus on the security for the former sites, of course, but let's not forget the latter in the rush to be 'safe'...

  • (Score: 2) by tempest on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:28PM

    by tempest (3050) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:28PM (#171009)

    If connecting via https on port 443. But as I said with opportunistic encryption there are no warnings because the cert isn't verified.