A report by Sandvine, reveals that the Internet citizens are now aware of the risks that they are exposed to, due to the NSA’s tracking systems, leading them to use Encrypted Web Traffic. The usage pattern has seen a change that is more than double.
The demand for a safer, and private internet is growing day by day, after the hero, Edward Snowden revealed the techniques and methods National Security Agency has been using to track the citizens of the internet. According to the new research, the encrypted traffic has spanned unto 3.8 percent in this year, confirming that there is an aftermath that is happening after the leak by Snowden about NSA.
The report claims that the encrypted traffic has gone up to 6.10 percent in Europe from just 1.47 percent. And the increase has also been recorded in Latin America, from 1.8 percent to a whooping 10.37 percent.
These changes are good. But then, how do these changes happen? The answer to this question is pretty simple. Companies like Google and Facebook have literally forced their users to use encrypted methods to access their services. This is not all. There are lot of browser plugins like the HTTPS Everywhere which has encouraged the users to use encrypted web browsing.
But there is this set of crowd, which is intelligent enough to hire a VPS to route their taffic through different country’s servers which is literally untracable. At this point of time, the static sites like ours and millions of sites are not encrypted. The traffic is just raw and the necessity of encrypting the web traffic has not yet arrived. But later this year, we believe that this will change. And literally, everyone would go HTTPS.
You can read the entire report at the source link.