How Secure Are Your Favorite Websites?

How Secure Are Your Favorite Websites?

Heartbleed is a scary thing. Aside from the violent-sounding name, the vulnerability in OpenSSL security protocols spans the entire internet and affects most of the sites we know, love, and use on a daily basis. Even outside of Heartbleed, not all security protocols are created equal. So how do you know who to trust?

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You Don’t Have To Use Google’s Search Encryption If You Don’t Want To

You Don't Have To Use Google's Search Encryption If You Don't Want To

It’s pretty much agreed that Google’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption is a good thing. Why not get a little free protection given that our search queries are often a good way of piecing together exactly what’s going on in our lives?

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The Government’s Coming For Your Encrypted Data Next

The Government's Coming For Your Encrypted Data Next

In the midst of the revelations about the NSA’s sweeping surveillance program, many people held out hope that the news reports simply weren’t true—they are—while others clung to the idea that they could somehow protect themselves. If the government has its way, pretty soon that hope will be lost.

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Chrome 25 extends encrypted search to everyone, not just signed-in users

Chrome users with something to hide have heretofore been required to sign in to Google to keep their omnibox searches hidden from prying eyes — but today’s Chrome 25 beta update changes that. Now all searches are automatically encrypted, whether you’re signed in or not. It’s certainly not the first browser to implement such a security feature — Firefox 14 switched to HTTPS for all searches last year — but it’s a welcome change all the same. With web voice recognition and security whitelists on the docket as well, the latest version of Chrome is setting up to be quite the must-have, especially for those who want to keep their Justin Bieber search results to themselves.

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