[CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Jan 19 11:37:45 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 03:29 -0800, S Mathias wrote: 
> Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on:
> https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
> Questions:
> 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

No clue.

> 2) Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?

You'd have better luck asking in the https-everywhere community.

> 3) Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?

No clue, but probably yes.

> 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?

Most people don't even know what SSL is.

> What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\

I think this approach is going nowhere and SSL/TLS encrypting images and
icons is [resource] expensive and pointless in 99.44% of cases.




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