Trying to reset the net to privacy

lotuseclat79 · May 25, 2014

Trying to reset the net to privacy

Summary: Sick and tired of an internet where the National Security Agency may be tracking your every online move? So is an alliance of privacy groups and technology companies, which is proposing that users reclaim their privacy on the Internet.
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mirimir · May 25, 2014

Thanks. It's great to see that on ZDNet. But some of the comments are profoundly wedged

Veeshush · May 25, 2014

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been encouraging Web sites and users to adopt SSL for years. In 2010, the EFF released HTTPS Everywhere. This is a browser extension that forces popular Web sites to connect to you, if possible, with SSL, Transport Layer Security (TLS), or TLS/SSL over HTTP (HTTPS).

Specifically, Reset the Net wants web users and developers to use SSL, TLS, and HTTPS. In addition, they want everyone to adopt the less well-supported HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), a web security policy tool, which forces HTTPS connections, and Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), a public key encryption program. The EFF claims that if sites used PFS even security holes as bad as Heartbleed wouldn't leave users' private messages vulnerable to attacks.
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It's only been maybe half a year since I started testing sites on SSL Labs for fun. Rarely do I see shopping/banking sites support Perfect Forward Secrecy. Then it also depends on what software their servers are using and how well they support the "best" HTTPS configs- and some don't.

It'll be a long time before HTTPS becomes a web standard, it may never be. I also don't get why the NSA was the hype needed to get some sites on the ball- do they not realize, or care, the sheer numbers of "things" your internet connection goes through to get to a server or host?

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