U.S. Federal Government Will Adopt HTTPS For All Of Its Websites

[Guest]

The White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an HTTPS-only directive today that requires all federal websites to use HTTPS encryption by the end of 2016.

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[Urzu1000]

I'm honestly shocked to know that their websites were not already using HTTPS.

 

[jaber2]

I'm honestly shocked to know that their websites were not already using HTTPS.

Next they will start using firewall

 

[joesavy86]

I'm honestly shocked to know that their websites were not already using HTTPS.

Next they will start using firewall

I lol'd at this.

 

[ChromeTusk]

It's about time! I just hope they don't go with the lowest bidder when equipment needs upgrades.

 

[fil333]

Meanwhile in the UK, David Cameron is trying to discourage any form of encryption...

 

[none12345]

"I'm honestly shocked to know that their websites were not already using HTTPS. "

You shouldn't be. All the time you hear about 'hackes' getting into government computers when all they do is just log in with a blank password. Ya that's right, a massive number of government computers have blank administrator passwords.

Here is a british guy who logged into 97 government computers with blank passwords in 2001-2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon

Security on most government systems is more then just a joke.

 

[humorific]

This can mean only one thing, the NSA have cracked https.

 

[Caanis Lupus]

Next they will start using firewall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIMuvumYrg