Using https to secure the Web
http://cpj.org/blog/2010/07/using-https-to-secure-the-web-for-journalism.php
Explains what is https. How using https “will make the Internet safer for at-risk journalists and a free press, but it’ll also make it more secure and private for us all.”
With regular http: “regimes [can] target and block individual Web addresses rather than whole sites. They can also block [individual] pages” based on words in the page.
“Sending Web pages securely [with https] stops both of these techniques. If you can’t spy on Web traffic, you can’t scan for keywords. And if you can’t see which Web page a person is visiting on a site, you can’t selectively block.”
