[106173] in North American Network Operators' Group
https (was: Re: Exploit for DNS Cache Poisoning - RELEASED)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Kisteleki)
Thu Jul 24 03:52:22 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:51:40 +0200
From: Robert Kisteleki <robert@ripe.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <594F3023-022A-406A-950D-1E02945F1B21@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://" in
> front of "www"?
I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change the
default behavior of browsers from http to https...?
I'm sure it's doable in FF with a simple plugin, one doesn't have to wait
for FF4. (That would work for bookmarks too.)
Robert
