Software provides another layer of online security

Created by the nonprofit digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, HTTPS Everywhere forces your browser to view Web pages using HTTP Secure, an encrypted technique that can prevent a host of problems when your computer talks with servers that store Web content.

By Tyler Dukes

Sunday, October 28, 2012

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