A year ago, if your site wasn’t using a web security protocol called HTTPS, the only folks likely to complain were tech-savvy consumer activists. Today, you might be likely to get a letter of concern from a U.S. senator. In fact, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) has formally asked Twitter, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), to start employ HTTPS as the default option on their sites. The senator’s attention appears to have been focused by Firesheep, a hacking program released in October that demonstrated how easy it is to grab users’ private data from the public WiFi networks commonly found at coffee shops and bookstores.
Mýa Natalie Imbruglia Patricia Velásquez Jennifer Morrison Adrianne Palicki
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