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18. Jun 2010

Beskyt dit privatliv - kryptér din browsertrafik så meget som muligt

 
Vi har tidligere omtalt muligheden for at kryptere sin internetkommunikation helt og aldeles ved hjælp af Tor, men mindre kan gøre det.

Hvis du bruger Firefox, har Electronic Frontier Foundation lavet en udvidelse til Firefox, der altid slår kryptering af trafikken til, hvis den server, man snakker med, tillader det.

På den måde kan eventuelle spioner godt se, at du er ved at surfe på nettet og endda hvor, men de kan så vidt muligt ikke se hvad. Ved at bruge denne udvidelse udfører man altså også den samfundsgavnlige funktion at medvirke til, at så meget af Internettrafikken som muligt bliver helt uanvendelig for politi, efterretningstjeneste og andre spioner.

EFF skriver selv om den nye udvidelse:
Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere.

click here to encrypt the web

This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications with some other sites:

  • Google Search
  • Wikipedia
  • Twitter and Identi.ca
  • Facebook
  • EFF and Tor
  • Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, Scroogle and other small search engines
  • and lots more!

Firefox users can install HTTPS Everywhere by following this link.

As always, even if you're at an HTTPS page, remember that unless Firefox displays a colored address bar and an unbroken lock icon in the bottom-right corner, the page is not completely encrypted and you may still be vulnerable to various forms of eavesdropping or hacking (in many cases, HTTPS Everywhere can't prevent this because sites incorporate insecure third-party content).



Link: Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

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