Micro-blogging service Twitter makes it easier to encrypt the login and other traffic to the site. Users of the micro blogging service, has previously been able to use https://twitter.com to encrypt their user names, passwords and other data for communication with the site. Now it should be easier, when the user through the settings may choose to bend in that traffic by default to be encrypted.
“This increases the security of your account and protect better information if you use Twitter over an unsecured Internet
connection, as a public wireless network, where anyone can eavesdrop on your activity at the site “, reads the company’s blog.
For connection to the mobile site is still required that the user enters the https site, ie https://mobile.twitter.com, but as Twitter are to be aimed at that, just increase the safety there as well.
One might ask themselves what the point is to encrypt the publication of Twitter Posts, which nevertheless are posted publicly. According to Paul Ducklin of security company Sophos, the risk that the cookie Twitter sends to your browser intercepted. This means that if someone intercepts your cookie so it can publish posts to your name.
To activate the setting, go to the “Settings” and choose to tick the “Always use HTTPS ‘, then you click” SAVE “and then” Save changes “.
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