Tag: HTTPS
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Explosive growth of HTTPS
Eight years ago, 50% of the traffic to Google was in HTTP. Today Google boasts of over 95% of the traffic being secured by HTTPS. This unprecedented transition required a lot of industry-wide partnerships across multiple organizations. The biggest change I noticed was on Chrome on Android which moved from 29% to 96% HTTPS in…
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HSTS: Forcing HTTPS for your service
You may have a hard time finding a non-HTTPS site today, but it was not too long ago when the default was HTTP. Sites like Facebook and Google were available without HTTPS/SSL for anyone in the network path to sniff and inject traffic into (even steal passwords and cookies). ISPs in particular loved to know…