{"id":10511,"date":"2011-08-01T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:25:58","slug":"a-quick-plug-for-a-useful-eff-plug-in-for-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/a-quick-plug-for-a-useful-eff-plug-in-for-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick plug for a useful EFF plug-in for Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned this <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/eff-introduces-encrypt-the-web-firefox-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, but I was just reminded about it as I started using the new laptop with its new install of Firefox:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google&#8217;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&#8217;s communications with some other sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Search<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia<\/li>\n<li>Twitter and Identi.ca<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>EFF and Tor<\/li>\n<li>Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, Scroogle and other small search engines and lots more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Firefox users can install HTTPS Everywhere by following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/https-everywhere-latest.xpi\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, even if you&#8217;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&#8217;t prevent this because sites incorporate insecure third-party content).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but I was just reminded about it as I started using the new laptop with its new install of Firefox: This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google&#8217;s encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[169,157,58,154,92],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-eff","tag-encryption","tag-internet","tag-privacy","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Jx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10512,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions\/10512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}