On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, William Luu <will....@gmail.com> wrote: > Facebook recently enabled the to ability to "Browse Facebook on a secure > connection (https) whenever possible" - > http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130 > > Yeah it took them a long while. And it definitely should be on https by > default. Same applies to Twitter (which will work in https if you browse to > it with the https url). > > That said, it also took Google a little while to roll out https as default > for their gmail email service. I still remember when I first signed up for > gmail and https was not enabled by default (it may/may not have been an > option in those early days). > > Just found a blog post by Google about the change-over: > http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html
And it now has two factor authentication, which is worth turning on. > > > On 6 March 2011 18:10, David Connors <da...@codify.com> wrote: >> >> On 4 March 2011 16:59, Samuel Lai <samuel....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Some hope that HTTPS will do to HTTP what SSH did to telnet. Digital >>> certificate infrastructure is still a bit of a mess though. >> >> Not really. The main problem is people running online businesses/social >> media sites etc who think that $100 for a cert is a lot of money. >> Eg Facebook was just valued at $75bln. I think they can afford a few certs >> and a crypto accelerator on their load balancers - they don't do it because >> they're frickin retards. There is no other excuse. >> If you're going overseas and want secure access to stuff, get a VPS >> located at a place you trust and do it over RDP over SSL or VPN back into a >> trusted network and use that VPN connection as your default gateway. >> -- >> David Connors | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com >> Software Engineer >> Codify Pty Ltd >> Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 >> 189 363 >> V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors >> Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact >> > > -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
