Improve your privacy and security with HTTPS Everywhere

James White
Aug 25, 2017 · 4 min read

Data transferred between your web browser and a website you visit uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Information sent over HTTP is not encrypted, leaving it vulnerable to eavesdropping, interception, and alteration. HTTP Secure, or HTTPS, is a secure version of HTTP. It encrypts data in transit and verifies the integrity of the data source. This beckons the question, why would any site…

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