Chrome will finally make secure URLs the default—in a year

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an ...
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Chrome making Always Use Secure Connections default next year

From April next year, Chrome will turn its Always Use Secure Connections for public sites on for all users by default.

Coinbase’s x402 transactions explode over 10,000% in a month

An online payments protocol introduced by Coinbase in May that enables AI agents to transact in stablecoins over the internet ...
Internet Society

Policy Brief: Open Internet Standards

Open Internet standards are the cornerstone of the Internet’s success, and the processes for creating them must remain open ...
JSTOR Daily

Covert Channels in the HTTP Network Protocol: Channel Characterization and Detecting Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Network covert channels allow two entities to communicate stealthily. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), accounting for approximately half of all traffic on the Internet (Burke, 2007), has become the ...

Google Chrome to warn users before opening insecure HTTP sites

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will ask for permission by default before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, beginning with Chrome 154 i026.
The Next Web

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information ...