Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project has released a beta version of a new Firefox extension that allows people to encrypt their communication with Facebook, Twitter and other sites. Everywhere HTTPS extensions from Firefox is inspired by the search options on the web that Google is encrypted, according to the EFF, which launched the device, Thursday (06/17). In addition to Facebook and Twitter, HTTPS Everywhere software will also run on Google Search, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Washington Post, PayPal, EFF, Tor, and Ixquick.
Everywhere HTTPS This tool works by creating a connection HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to the site. However, even if the ‘https’ is used, unless the address bar color and unlocked the lock icon displayed in the lower right corner, mala pages are not fully encrypted, according to EFF.
As quoted from ZDNet, noted that the use of HTTPS does not hide the IP address and computer users can still be traced from the broken SSL session featuring third-party content that is not encrypted. “Forcing a full session on a popular social networking services like Facebook for example, without taking into account the fact that SSL does not magically make all personal data, including IP addresses, lost, is wrong,” wrote Dancho Danchev from ZDNet.