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"Now, if you are on an airport Wi-Fi or other public network everything you search for is in the clear." ok, and most search results you click on will take you
by jhancock 16y ago
"Now, if you are on an airport Wi-Fi or other public network everything you search for is in the clear."
ok, and most search results you click on will take you somewhere not secure. There may be little value add here.
From re-reading this article, it actually contains no value expect the headline itself. cnet should start just doing tweets instead of bothering to try to fill a page.
- Groxx 16y agoSeriously? You don't see a use for secured searches? How do you think the Chinese government will like this? Or any government who attempts to censor searches? How will they know what's being searched for? Also, a lot of value can be gleaned from just the results, and not all lead to insecure sites.
- jhancock 16y agoMe personally? I want https for gmail...ok, I've had it since around 2008. For web search? If I'm going to search on something top secret I wouldn't want Google to have identifiable info on me either so I wouldn't use Google or I would try to obfuscate my identity from Google through other means. So, for me, https on search isn't a common use case. As to China: I think China will block https search on Google. I think any government that censors search will block https search on Google. Playing the China card on this new feature isn't interesting. Google and/or the press should not try to score points through inflammatory China comments with this new feature rollout. Https search should be added simply because its a feature users want; and I'm sure some do.