[SSL Observatory] First Alpha of the Decentralized SSL Observatory released

[Peter Eckersley]

The first alpha version of EFF's Decentralized SSL Observatory for Firefox is
now available as an opt-in feature of this version of HTTPS Everywhere:

https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-2.0development.1.xpi

If you have Tor and Torbutton installed, you will get a popup asking if you
would like to use the SSL Observatory.  Otherwise, you can turn it on in the
HTTPS Everywhere menu (Which can be found in the toolbar on in the "Tools"
menu).

The Decentralized Observatory will let us incorporate data from numerous
network endpoints in future SSL Observatory data releases.  It will also let
us implement server-side heuristics to detect insecure or malicious
certificates, and users will get popup warnings when the Observatory spots
these.

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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993