Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?
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Image credit: Bernard Hermant from UnsplashIt’s 2019 and, still, around 25% of websites on the Internet are visited without #encryption. Let’s look at why.This is Part 2 of a three-part series on public Wi-Fi insecurity. In Part 1, I showed how easily, even today, a hacker could victimize users of public Wi-Fi networks. I created a tool to catch a glimpse of how prevalent potentially-insecure activities occur on public Wi-Fi, and compared results to a similar report from Google.The results were consistently bleak: about a quarter of all website visits occur without the use of HTTPS.I was curious why there would be so much traffic over ol’ unencrypted HTTP, but that required actually inspecting packets at a deeper level. I decided jail didn’t sound like fun; so, back at home, I set up a little (...)
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