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Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

Posted on July 12, 2017 by HeyJK

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re on a rapid march towards a “secure by default” web when it comes to protecting traffic. For example, back in Feb this year, 20% of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites were forcing the secure scheme:

https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/

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