The movement to encrypt the web has reached a milestone. As of earlier this month, approximately half of Internet traffic is now protected by HTTPS. In other words, we are halfway to a web safer from the eavesdropping, content hijacking, cookie stealing, and censorship that HTTPS can protect against. Mozilla recently reported that the average volume of encrypted web traffic on Firefox now surpasses the average unencrypted volume. Source: https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ Google Chrome’s figures on HTTPS usage are consistent with that finding, showing that over 50% of of all pages loaded are...