Sci/Tech Chrome Security Team Considers Marking All HTTP Pages As 'Non-Secure'

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Back in August, we noted that Google had started adjusting its search algorithm to give a slight boost to sites that are encrypted. That is, all else equal, sites that use HTTPS will get a slight ranking boost. The company made it clear that the weight of this signal will increase over time, and this is a way of encouraging more websites to go to HTTPS by default (something that we've done, but very few other sites have done).

Now it appears that the Chrome Security Team is taking things even further: suggesting that all HTTP sites be marked as non-secure.

We, the Chrome Security Team, propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change their UX to display non-secure origins as affirmatively non-secure. We intend to devise and begin deploying a transition plan for Chrome in 2015.

The goal of this proposal is to more clearly display to users that HTTP provides no data security.

Chrome Security Team Considers Marking All HTTP Pages As 'Non-Secure'

Back in August, we noted that Google had started adjusting its search algorithm to give a slight boost to sites that are encrypted. That is, all else equal, sites that use HTTPS will get a slight r…

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