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Tip of the Week (Episode 201217): Secure Browsing with https

By Dan Giancaterino •  April 24, 2012

Jenkins Tip of the Week (Episode 201217): Last year Google went to a full encrypted connection for Web search to foil online snoops. More and more Websites -- Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- are going that route, using https. Others, such as Yahoo Mail, are not. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has produced a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, called HTTPS Everywhere, which automatically puts you in encrypted mode for every Website that supports it.

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