How Invisible Waves Have Changed the World
2018-07-24 [Petri]
Today is the D-Day for Chrome in its attempt to reduce the use of HTTP on websites: any sites that do not use the secure HTTPS protocol will be flagged as "not secure" by the newest version of Chrome.
This change was originally supposed to happen in June, but got delayed by about a month.
Blindly enforcing this kind of change has caused a lot of stir amongst the web administrator community, as there are legitimate reasons for not bothering to go through the hoops of providing the extra layer of security for websites that do not need users to log in and only act as containers for some useful information.
If, for example, you only host copies of some pictures, why would you bother to add transport layer security for their delivery?
Setting up a website that adheres to this requirement is without a doubt a more tedious task than just whipping up a basic HTTP site, but this will be the new reality unless there is a major uproar or something goes horribly wrong due to this new requirement.
As some 55% of the top million sites are still working on HTTP only, there may be some serious repercussions due to this, not least due to the potential of user fatigue when it comes to security warnings: if lots of pointless warnings will be generated due to this, some valid ones may slip through as users just blindly ignore them.
More about the background of this issue, the potential benefits of doing it and a way to install HTTPS on your site for free can be found in my earlier in-depth blog entry.
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