When midnight strikes on Jan. 1, 2016, a new Internet security standard goes into effect. The cryptographic hashing algorithm that encrypts websites to help keep them secure will be updated. While this is good news for many Web users, for millions of people around the globe-- primarily in developing countries -- the security upgrade could leave them in the lurch.
What's the problem? Researchers determined that SHA-1, the current standard encryption algorithm, would no longer be safe from hackers by year's end. As a result, the CA/Browser Forum, a group that consists of certificate authorities and industry browser leaders like Firefox and Microsoft, announced that SHA-1 certificates would no longer be issued. In its place would be the stronger SHA-2, which will help make sites more secure for virtually all Internet users in the U.S. and other Western countries, but which is not compatible with mobile devices that are more than five years old -- bad news for people in mostly developing countries who rely on older-model phones for Internet access, Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of web security firm CloudFlare, told CBS News.
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January 1 Internet update could leave millions in the cold
January 1 Internet update could leave millions in the cold
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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Millions of people prevented from accessing Facebook from their mobile phones...
I suppose they could use the time to get a life.
I suppose they could use the time to get a life.
This is the way
Re: January 1 Internet update could leave millions in the cold
LOL coming from a man with 8k + posts.dtaai-maai wrote:Millions of people prevented from accessing Facebook from their mobile phones...
I suppose they could use the time to get a life.
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Re: January 1 Internet update could leave millions in the cold
HHCanuck wrote:LOL coming from a man with 8k + posts.dtaai-maai wrote:Millions of people prevented from accessing Facebook from their mobile phones...
I suppose they could use the time to get a life.
Nice one.