<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi All -<br><br>Right now when you click on the little globe next to an http:// URI you are
currently told "your connection to this website is not encrypted".. Perfectly reasonable!<br><br>However,
with respect to the deployment of HTTP/2 later this year, we'll have
the opportunity to do some TLS encryption in conjunction with http://
URIs. This approach is designed to raise the bar against passive
eavesdropping attacks as compared to clear text, but its well known that
it is subvertable by active attackers. Because of that we don't want to
send a message about increased security in the UI in any way (perhaps
deep in devtools is an exception)- this is basically a public health
bump for the Internet at large but doesn't give you any guaranteeable
confidentiality per transaction. The distinction about secure vs
insecure remains http:// vs https:// not plaintext vs TLS.<br>
<br>In order to future proof this, I'd
like to change the "not encrypted" phrase to something a little less
specific that is consistent with that scenario. My hope is we would just
use the new phrase all the time. I don't have a particular
suggestion - maybe "Your connection to this website might be observed"
would be better?<br>
<br></div>Maybe the UX team can help with the wordsmithing and shepherding.<br><br></div>-Patrick<br></div>