{"id":2588,"date":"2011-03-16T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:27:34","slug":"important-twitter-security-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/03\/important-twitter-security-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Twitter Security Enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter today announced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2011\/03\/making-twitter-more-secure-https.html\">a new security feature enabling HTTPS for all web connections to the service<\/a>.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP_Secure\">HTTPS<\/a> is a secure\/encrypted version of the standard web protocol, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP\">HTTP<\/a>.  This follows <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=486790652130\">similar recent changes by Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using HTTPS where possible\/available is important &#8211; it means that all your communications with the Twitter site are encrypted end-to-end from your browser to their servers.  Using it eliminates many possibilities for the &#8220;bad guys&#8221; to snoop your personal information during any transaction between yourself and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Turn it on.  Now.<\/p>\n<p>Go to your <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/account\">Twitter Settings Page<\/a> and make sure &#8220;Always Use HTTPS&#8221; is ticked, and click &#8220;Save&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This does not necessarily protect you when using third-party Twitter applications, but today&#8217;s changes should allow such applications to be updated with similar security functionality, if they don&#8217;t already use it.  Twitter has had HTTPS available for quite some time if you wanted &#8211; they are now at least allowing people to enforce its use.<\/p>\n<p>Do it people.  Protect your personal information as much as you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter today announced a new security feature enabling HTTPS for all web connections to the service. HTTPS is a secure\/encrypted version of the standard web protocol, HTTP. This follows similar recent changes by Facebook. Using HTTPS where possible\/available is important &#8211; it means that all your communications with the Twitter site are encrypted end-to-end from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[401,475,561],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-online-safety","tag-security","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}