Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option 176
KirinMercury writes "Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type 'https://www.google.com' into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results that Google displays, will be protected from interception." Note that you need the 'www' for it to work. Dropping it redirects you to a non-ssl page. You might have read this on Saturday, but if you missed it, it's still worth knowing.
Talking of new services ... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot began offering an dupe-free option for Web searchers on Friday (and then repeated the offer on Saturday) ... *facepalm*
How about we just rename the site to Reddit ... I mean, every other story, we already reddit.
Re:Was this posted before? (Score:1, Funny)
12/14/2010 log #3342 (Score:5, Funny)
session id #4ddr-tg62-hh89
12:30 https initiated begin session
12:31 "divorce lawyer"
12:34 "divorce lawyer low cost"
12:34 "hitman hire"
12:36 "hitman low cost"
12:37 "assassination do-it-yourself"
12:40 "polonium-210 availability"
12:41 "legal anthrax"
12:41 "ricin suppliers"
12:42 "arsenic wholesale"
12:43 "legal mustard gas"
12:43 "cheap readily available poisons"
12:46 "antifreeze toxicity"
12:49 "brainstorming murder scenarios"
12:52 "how to run hose from exhaust to passenger compartment"
12:55 "wits end"
12:41 "chloroform wholesalers"
12:45 "shovel hacksaw garbage bags"
12:45 interrupt: preemptive googlebot legal log crawler has identified a high criminal behavior correlation index in session id #4ddr-tg62-hh89. log and ip address forwarded to google-inbox@fbi.gov
1:05 "stalling law enforcement"
1:06 "good indoor hiding places"
1:06 "proper handgun usage"
1:26 session timed out
Default (Score:5, Funny)
Wake me up when they enable a default option like in Gmail.
Re:MitM only? (Score:4, Funny)
That's adorable
Re:Mod Parent up! Easier method (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, if you find opening and using a GUI easier than opening and editting a config file, you're in with the wrong crowd.
Re:I fail to see (Score:4, Funny)
otherwise the admin would easily see https://login.yourbank.com/?login=you&password=hunter2 [yourbank.com]
Re:Mod Parent up! Easier method (Score:5, Funny)
What real people see in these instructions:
1. Go to address bar.
2. Type about:config.
3. Type "keyword.URL" in the search bar.
4. Double-click.
5. Edit result.
6. Click OK.
What apparently "real" geeks see in these instructions:
1. Pry your hands away from keyboard. Use chisel to remove Cheeto dust encrusting fingers there if need be.
2. Locate mouse.
3. Mutter profanities to poster for suggesting this primitive means of interface (this step is important, as later steps depend on it).
4. Increase volume of profanities as you are forced to wrench your eyes away from the relaxing phosphor glow of monitor to locate mouse.
5. Increase volume of profanities as you wait for eyes to adjust to the otherwise pitch-black room to locate mouse.
6. Increase volume of profanities as you look for the mouse cable coming out of the computer to find mouse.
7. Increase volume of profanities as you remember you have a wireless mouse.
8. Go back to keyboard and type up scathing dissertation against the clearly inferior intelligence that suggested this.
9. Realize you have now returned to step 1. Repeat from there, remembering to skip over step 8 this time.
10. Give up on finding mouse and, grumbling, go to Fry's Electronics to find a new mouse (NOTE: if there is no Fry's nearby, you are clearly not a "real" geek, and most likely do not even exist, as the modern world ceases to exist outside the range of Fry's).
11. Return home. Allow eyes to readjust to pitch blackness after being out in the big blue-ceiling room.
12. Install new mouse.
13. Reinstall new mouse.
14. Update operating system. Mouse might work this time. Whoever heard of this new technology, anyway? "USB"? Why couldn't you find any serial port mice? Those are way more l33t.
15. Train hand-eye coordination enough to use mouse. Try not to reflexively touch keyboard, else you will be back at step 1.
16. Go to address bar.
17. Increase volume of profanities.
18. Stubbornly type "about:config".
19. Stare at new interface.
20. Back to Fry's to find a book on how modern interfaces work. You never had to deal with all this confusing nonsense with a keyboard, dadgummit!
21. Type "keyword.URL" into search bar.
22. Realize you are just bashing your precious keyboard at this point due to soaring blood pressure due to anger at having to use a mouse.
23. Wait a few hours to calm down. Don't touch keyboard in that time.
24. Type "keyword.URL" into search bar.
25. Double-click.
26. Edit result.
27. Click OK.
28. Make muttering comments to yourself, passively-aggressively asking if the person who suggested this is happy now.
29. Go to IRC and detail this harrowing experience to your l33t friends.
See? That's WAY more steps than locating and editing a config file!