death of HTTP impending

[ilovetitty]

Long and short of it, unencrypted HTTP is dying and should go away. On a site like this, the fact it's unencrypted transmission is kind of baffling.

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html

Chrome is going to start flagging HTTP only websites. Is Perb going to get a cert soon?

 

[tinacharles]

So many scary posts here heh! All governments lie, FB is watching you, everybody is watching you. Well seriously, it's not far from truth, guys.
Just noticed LeoList became Secure now: https://www.leolist.cc/secure
Backpage isn't. Perb isn't. That's a real security concern nowadays.

 

[ilovetitty]

from a technical stand point, there isn't any reason not to use encrypted https anymore.

https://letsencrypt.org/

FREE domain certs! any sysadmin worth their salt can use it and add SSL to a website.

 

[tinacharles]

Actually I noticed today that most websites I use are already Secure: Facebook, Google and Instagram. Found it weird that BP and CL are not, will not use them any more (LL is better in vancity anyway). Perb is ok because I never share anything personal here ,)

 

[ilovetitty]

pretty well all major websites are now encrypted.

In essence the software that makes websites work do encryption "for free" as it is the default mode of operation. Perb just needs to be brought up to date too.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

:sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

 

[ilovetitty]

Well thank you @FredZed, perb is now using encryption with an up to date cert. I think some php needs to be updated as some static image content is still being served over http, but the main site is working over SSL now. Thanks!