The share of HTTPS traffic on the Internet exceeded 50%

I congratulate everyone on this event - on January 29, 2017, the number of pages loaded via the HTTPS protocol exceeded 50%.

According to the telemetry of Firefox.

You can see for yourself (there are other charts there, another interesting one - the number of issued certificates per day from LE) .
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The findings of Mozilla are made on the basis of averages of the volume of encrypted and unencrypted traffic over two weeks, and they may still fluctuate in the coming days. However, the very fact that the encrypted traffic was exceeded by unencrypted numbers is already a significant event. "The value of this turning point is difficult to overestimate," - quotes the publication of Wired expert of the organization New America Ross Schulman (Ross Schulman)
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Do not forget that using HTTPS can protect you from your state, provider, hackers in a public cafe (from any thief between you and the server), but HTTPS is not a panacea - if you hack a server or viruses on your device, this protocol will not help.

Attention lovers sit on entertainment sites from work

With a probability of 90%, your employer installed a root certificate on your work PC that will decrypt all your traffic from the network administrator.

In the near future, HTTP will be set to hunt - browsers chrome / firefox will mark the protocol as not secure.



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Ps. In the last post about HTTPS there was a poll, here are its results: