EFF and Tor project bring HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Addon

We use web for our day to day activites, most of which we want to be secret - Financial transactions, private conversations, emails etc. HTTPS makes sure that nobody is able to steal your personal data, by encrypting it. Even though most of the websites are shifting to HTTPS, they still have some holes which rebound you to unencryption.

Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Tor Project have collaborated to bring a new Firefox addon - HTTPS Everywhere, which aims to make your daily web life safer.

Sometimes the websites which support SSL encryption defaults to unencrypted websites or an encrypted page will be filled with insecure unencrypted (http) links. This is what HTTPS Everywhere tries to fix for you. It will rewrite every request to these websites to HTTPS. Ofcourse the third-party/external links might not be supporting encryption, in such cases the addon won't be able to help you.

We are all aware of the secure web search Google introduced a while back, but it defaults to unencrypted search engine. One will have to deliberately use HTTPS  to use secure search. HTTPS Everywhere defaults this for you.

HTTPS Everywhere already supports a number of websites including Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, The NewYork Times, The Washington Post and more. If you want to define other domains to be redirected to HTTPS you can easily do that by writing your own ruleset.