On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:39:52 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

"Developers of the Firefox browser have moved one step closer to an Internet that encrypts all the world's traffic with a new feature that can cryptographically protect connections even when servers don't support the HTTPS protocol."

-- source: http://goo.gl/w7hwbR

This doesn’t guard against active “man-in-the-middle” attacks, but it does shut out passive snoopers. Or “bulk data collection”, or whatever the euphemism is that the spooks and their allies are using this week...