Troy Hunt

AUGUST 12, 2021

More than 3 years ago now, Scott Helme and I launched a little project called Why No HTTPS? It listed the world's largest websites that didn't properly redirect insecure requests to secure ones.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default. We called it Why No HTTPS? and it gave people a way to see the largest websites not taking transport layer security seriously.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 23, 2018

As of today, Google begins shipping Chrome 68 which flags all sites served over the HTTP scheme as being "not secure" This is because the connection is, well, not secure so it seems like a fairly reasonable thing to say! Make sure your site redirects to #HTTPS , so you don’t have the same problem. Who are these people?!

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Even the government has been pushing to drive adoption of HTTPS for all sites, for example in this post by the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK : all websites should use HTTPS, even if they don't include private content, sign-in pages, or credit card details. Is it needed? Does it do any good?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof.

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