Alex Gaynor • 11/12/2014

The State of the News and TLS

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The article examines the poor state of TLS (HTTPS) adoption among major news websites in 2014. It audits the top ten US newspapers by circulation and major global news sites from the Alexa Top 150, finding that most either lack TLS entirely, have broken implementations due to mixed content, or don't enforce it. The author argues that news sites, given their critical role, have a particular responsibility to deploy TLS for reader privacy, authentication, and content integrity.

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