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HTTPS should be made the default for all pages

steamclosed Feature Requestreviewed
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4216 · opened 2015-12-28 by ghost · updated 2019-02-23 · 5 comments · github
?ghost 2015-12-28 github

HTTPS should be made the default protocol for all pages to protect users privacy and security

Oozone89 2015-12-28 github

:+1:

JJoshuaMurphynz 2016-01-09 github

You can use HTTPS Everywhere to force this.

Which pages don't load in HTTPS for you?

?ghost 2016-01-09 github

HTTPS Everywhere only works with predefined rules.
For example store.steampowered.com isn't available in HTTPS making all downloads of the steam client vulnerable to interception and infection.
Steam should deploy HTTPS by default on all pages no exception period.

?ghost 2016-01-30 github

"Other vulnerabilities that are favorite attack vectors? The personal devices employees bring into the office on which they’ve allowed their kids to load Steam games, and which the workers then connect to the network."

Rob Joyce (TAO, NSA) just said Steam games are a security threat #enigma2016

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-to-keep-him-out-of-your-system/

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-02-22 github

Migration to HTTPS happened a fair while ago, closing.

Nothing extracted yet.