More than half of web traffic is now encrypted, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). That’s a big win for businesses and all of us, since it guards against eavesdropping and tampering with content as it moves from device to server and back again. The move from http to https has been driven in large part by Google, which highlighted http sites as unsecure and made encryption a ranking factor for its search results, pushing more and more businesses to adopt it. Of course this rise in encryption comes with one big, obvious downside. Hackers too now use encryption…
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