These lists were compiled on 2011-01-25 to 2011-02-02, with an updated run in the end of november 2011, from various sources (see each list). HTTPS (herein referred to as SSL/TLS) is a basic requirement for privacy when surfing the web as it prevents third parties such as FRA and your ISP from eavesdropping on your communication. It does still allow for a third party to see WHOM you are talking to, but not the contents. If we think about it, that is a big difference
Reasons that YOU might want to use SSL/TLS when browsing perfectly normal sites:
An eavesdropper could by watching your behaviour on:
- news sites and blogs, easily determine your political preferences.
- porn sites/erotica and forums, easily determine your sexual prefences.
- traffic sites easily determine your traveling patterns
- communities, such as facebook, easily determine who your friends are
- search engines, easily determine what's on your mind this second
- communities, such as facebook, easily determine who you are
- what you buy, such as commercial sites, determine your incomeclass
- what you sell and buy on auction sites, determine what your hobbies are
Currently, the following lists are available
- Swedish alexa top 100
- Swedish media sites, januari 2011, or Swedish media sites, november 2011
- Alexa top 100 international media
- Swedish labour unions, januari 2011, or Swedish labour unions, november 2011
- Swedish political parties, or Swedish political parties, november 2011
Don't take our word for it. read more:
- How to deploy https correctly
- Dispell the myth of perfomance problems with https
- Install HTTPS everywhere (firefox only)
If there's one point that we want to communicate to the world, it's that SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Ten years ago it might have been true, but it's just not the case any more. You too can afford to enable HTTPS for your users. -- Adam Langley of Google