[ALUG] Mozilla will obsolete HTTP

[Tim Schofield]

This "feels" wrong to me. It seems like another way to move the web
into being owned by governments and corporations and away from it's
free, open and transparent founding principles. Yes there are sites
that should obviously be https only, but there are also sites where it
would be unnecessary. It is not up to the likes of Google/NSA/Mozilla
to force this onto us. They would be better looking at the
insecurities in their JS/ActiveX engines that allow malware to get
installed if a user goes to an insecure site.

Just my 2p
Tim

On 2 May 2015 at 20:09, Andreas Tauscher via Linux
<linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:
> Now it is official:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/
>
> Mozilla want's to get rid of http.
> In the first step new features will only work if the connection is httpS.
> In the next step even elder features will be step by step disabled on
> not encrypted connnections.
>
> But until this: Will take some time.
> Google announced a while ago similar things for Chrome.
> Since April https websites are higher ranked in the Google index.
> And HTTP2 will also imply https.
>
> The pressure on webmasters is getting higher to switch to https.
>
>
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