As announced last year, Facebook is moving to HTTPS for all users. “This week, we’re starting to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the world”. This should result in safer Facebooking from hotspots and coffee shops, which have been targets of so-called man in the middle attacks, whereby hackers intercept unencrytped logons via bogus wireless hotspots.
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Facebook to begin using HTTPS
As announced last year, Facebook is moving to HTTPS for all users. “This week, we’re starting to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the world”. This should result in safer Facebooking from hotspots and coffee shops, which have been targets of so-called man in the middle attacks, whereby hackers intercept unencrytped logons via bogus wireless hotspots.
