Author: Zeljka Zorz HNS Managing Editor/ Posted on 19 August 2014.
How can we force website owners and software developers to start using HTTPS? Coder Tony Webster believes shaming might be the right answer.
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To that point, he created a website titled HTTP Shaming and has started posting examples. He was soon joined by others.
He says that the creation of the site was triggered by a OS X reinstall that reset his user firewall rules, and which allowed him to see how many apps he uses regularly send out unencrypted data.
"Anyone with network sniffing software can intercept traffic on open wireless networks, and if passwords and personal information is being sent, that attacker now has a lot of bad information that could be used to cause a lot of problems. It’s easy for software vendors to blame hardware vendors and for them to blame network operators, when in reality it’s everyone’s responsibility to provide security for their users," he noted.
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