NY Times Urges News Sites To Embrace HTTPS/SSL... In An Article That Can't Be Read Via HTTPS

from the fail dept

Earlier this year, Techdirt announced that it had gone over to HTTPS as a default to better protect everyone's privacy on this site. As the Freedom of the Press Foundation recently pointed out, it appears that we're one of only three media properties that do so, along with Muckrock and the Intercept. A few others have SSL, but not by default. But most don't even have HTTPS at all.

That's why it was really interesting to see the NY Times publish a piece encouraging news organization to "embrace HTTPS," detailing why it's a good idea, and knocking down many of the excuses that some have used not to move forward. The piece is co-authored by Rajiv Pant, the CTO of the NY Times. Thus, you'd expect that the NY Times has SSL, right? Wrong. Hell, just try to visit that very article with the HTTPS version and you get: So, kudos to the NYT for pushing HTTPS for news organizations, but it seems like the kind of thing worth doing after you've done it yourself.

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