Security News > 2016 > July > Amazon Silk browser removes Google’s default encryption (Help Net Security)
2016-07-26 17:53
Google’s good intentions of keeping searches made via its search engine protected through default encryption have been stymied by Amazon. A bug in the Amazon Silk browser, which is based on the open source Chromium project and comes pre-loaded on the company’s line of Kindle Fire tablets and Fire phones, made Google searches executed through the browser’s omnibox be without SSL protection. “Furthermore, going to http://www.google.com which normally would redirect to the SSL version, stayed … More →
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