SSL on All Domains by the End of 2014: WordPress Promise

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Technology has changed the fabric of our daily life, with constant updates technological revolutions has started to think of revolution that was mere science fiction till date. With the rising demand to encrypt different corners of the internet enabling more SSL is gaining prominence.

Wordpress is not far behind. Threatpost reports that Wordpress on Thursday became the latest to promise to encrypt its traffic by default by the end of 2014.


Paul Sieminski, general counsel at Automattic, the parent company to WordPress, Cloudup, Simplenote further confirms the news saying, “In the face of intrusive surveillance, we believe that everyone in the tech community needs to stand up and do what they can, starting with their own sites and platforms.” (Threatpost)

Wordpress made the announcement prior to Reset the Net day a coordinated movement urging websites to encrypt traffic using SSL, HSTS and PFS, and to deploy SSL and certificate pinning, besides promoting privacy tools such as Tor for users interested in keeping Web traffic private.

Experts believe that web and mobile app developers who strictly abides Perfect Forward Secrecy and HSTS will look for such encryption in any new deployment.

Well, Wordpress was not the single brand that failed till date to encrypt data center links – some big brands too fall in this list such as - Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Verizon.

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