Coding Horror: Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
february 2012 by jpcody
The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar. It's difficult to fix without making major changes to the web's infrastructure.
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february 2012 by jpcody
Performance Calendar » Advice on Trusting Advice
january 2012 by jpcody
But using SSL, just for the fun of it, is not a good idea. SSL impacts web performance negatively in several ways:
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january 2012 by jpcody