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Recommended Firefox Plugin

by Whaleoil on June 21, 2010

from Boing Boing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Onion Router (TOR) project have teamed up to release a new privacy-enhancing Firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It was inspired by Google’s new encrypted search engine, and it ensures that whenever you visit a site that accepts encrypted connections, your browser switches into encrypted mode, hiding your traffic from snoops on your local network and at your ISP. HTTPS Everywhere covers Google search, Wikipedia, Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, EFF, Tor, Scroogle, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick and other smaller search engines. It’s still in beta (what isn’t?) but I’ve been running it all morning with no negative side effects.

Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension (Thanks, Hugh!)

Stop the government’s snoops, download the plugin and while you are at it get yourself Tor and a few other tools.

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  • sickhealthysanemad

    Cameron Slater this is a depressing turn of events. What, seriously, have you got to hide? Why not move to the Appalachian Mountains and sit on the porch with a shotgun and a padlocked steel box with all your clippings and furtive explorations in it. PARANOID…. and the opposite of what the internet is about. Openness, access and shared information. Which is what an Avatar is all about isn’t it?

  • becn

    Sick-etc just because you have nothing to hide does not mean that anyone should be allowed to snoop as they like. I don’t have anything to hide but I still lock my door when I leave home – not just against theft but also to stop people just wandering around to be nosy. What a really really sick argument you make.

    BUT be wary people. TOR simply hides your source and destination. It does not, and doesn’t pretend, to encrypt. Lots of people have been caught out that way.

    Thanks for the headsup on this plugin WO.

    I also recommend noscript for the truly paranoid.

  • sickhealthysanemad

    @becn “I don’t have any thing to hide but I still lock my door when I leave home — not just against theft but also to stop people just wandering around to be nosy”

    Whatever. That is not believable. Both parts. Do you therefore agree with Nicky Hagar who wishes the cameras all over Newmarket in Akl be removed?

  • becn

    actually I do – not just because of nicky hagar’s belief but because they are not effective. London is a great case-study of this. The crime-rate did not drop, and the prosecution rate did not increase. They are simply not effective.

    You don’t believe that I don’t like people wandering into my place? I assure you that I don’t and I don’t think I’m on the fringe.

    Why do you think we have laws against peeping toms and prowling?

  • becn

    and if you think I’m talking BS about the cameras being a waste of money – start here http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/on_londons_surv.html

  • P1LL

    thanks for that info Cam :)