HTTPS can also be used to protect you from malware [1] [2] and stop censorship [3]. If anything, news sites should be among the first to adopt strong HTTPS conn

HTTPS can also be used to protect you from malware [1] [2] and stop censorship [3]. If anything, news sites should be among the first to adopt strong HTTPS connections since many people visit them and the news also needs to not be censored. [1] https://citizenlab.org/2014/08/cat-video-and-the-death-of-clear-text/ https://citizenlab.org/2014/08/cat-video-and-the-death-of-cl... [2] http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2014/AP-Seattle-Times-Upset-About-FBI-Impersonation http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2014/AP-Seattle-Tim... [3] http://ben.balter.com/2015/01/06/https-all-the-things/ http://ben.balter.com/2015/01/06/https-all-the-things/ As for the performance side, SPDY is probably not perfect, but it seems to generally improve over current HTTP, even if it uses secure connection. But even if it didn't, using HTTPS seems to add negligible overhead, and compared to the security it gives I think it's well worth it. https://www.httpvshttps.com/ https://www.httpvshttps.com/