EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Detects and Warns About Cryptographic Vulnerabilities 46
Peter Eckersley writes "EFF has released version 2 of the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension for Firefox, and a beta version for Chrome. The Firefox release has a major new feature called the Decentralized SSL Observatory. This optional setting submits anonymous copies of the HTTPS certificates that your browser sees to their Observatory database allowing them to detect attacks against the web's cryptographic infrastructure. It also allows us to send real-time warnings to users who are affected by cryptographic vulnerabilities or man-in-the-middle attacks. At the moment, the Observatory will send warnings if you connect to a device has a weak private key due to recently discovered random number generator bugs."
Donate. (Score:5, Insightful)
The list of people who both care about the non-commercial interests of an end user and are technically proficient to do something about it is pretty small.
Re:Good (Score:4, Insightful)
I want a browser extension to record and track my connections into a centralized database. It's for my own benefit, you see.
Well, it's only the https connections, and your ISP and the TLAs already have that.
I would trust the EFF more than I would trust google, omniture, doubleclick, comscore (which slashdot uses), etc.