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Chrome Plans to Mark All ‘HTTP’ Traffic as Insecure from 2015

Chromium Project’s security team hasand is planning to explicitly and actively inform users that HTTP connections provide no data security protections. Google is encouraging user agent vendors to take a phased approach to implementing these changes given the needs of their users and product design constraints. Google also made changes in its search engine algorithm in an effort to give a slight ranking boost to the websites that use encrypted HTTPS connections. There are also projects like, launched by the non-profit foundation EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) to offer free HTTPS/SSL certificates for those running servers on the Internet at the beginning of 2015.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/chrome-plans-to-mark-all-http-traffic_88.html

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