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amyjess on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%

I'd imagine that a lot of this is attributable to Firesheep calling attention to how anyone on a public Wi-Fi network could snoop on your Facebook traffic.

Most of the major websites fast-tracked HTTPS shortly after that.

cdine on Nov 2, 2019 [–]

Thanks! That was the goal. For those who aren't familiar, the original slides and our response blog posts are still up: https://codebutler.com/projects/firesheep/

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