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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

[FD] Browser Security Tool: HTTPS Only (Why, How, Open Source, Python)

(@moderators The original post was too brief. This one has details.) Summary This tool completely locks browser - just HTTPS, nothing else. This tool is extremely simple - less than 100 lines of code(Python and JavaScript). Why Firefox Add-on Firesheep Brings Hacking to the Masses http://ift.tt/18iigJA "Firesheep is basically a packet sniffer that can analyze all the unencrypted Web traffic" (Quite a while ago, it's become a "casual game") Yes, Mozilla said, "Gradually phasing out access to browser features for non-secure websites", in April 2015. After more than six months, they have done nothing useful. The Chrome team wanted the same stuff: http://ift.tt/1uyAjTZ Again, nothing significant has been achieved yet. And there is HTTPS Everywhere, with SO MANY rules: http://ift.tt/1FpsWWh It's still able to access HTTP by default, but there is "Block all HTTP requests". The problem: nothing happens when browser tries HTTP - there should be warning(it's incorrect behavior) and options(try HTTPS, Google Cache, etc). People complained, months ago: http://ift.tt/1SQVuS2 How PAC(Proxy auto-config) is used: If it's HTTPS, that's fine. If it's HTTP, user gets warning and options(try HTTPS, Google Cache - it has HTTPS, etc). Anything else, it goes to 0.0.0.0 It's a simple tool that does one job, and does it very well. URLs http://ift.tt/1PFmOMV http://ift.tt/1SQVsJQ Best Wishes,

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