Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness, will soon be changed with a new icon that doesn’t imply that a site is secure or should be ...

The White House is planning to mandate that all agency websites use HTTPS encryption to protect citizens from online eavesdroppers. While the "HTTPS-Only Standard" makeover likely won’t happen ...

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