Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC possible move to HTTPS for content delivery ?

2016-09-19 Thread pippin
But the move to https is to be expected since that's where the whole web is moving acknowledging that there are few thins not security and privacy relevant out there. It's, for example, one additional step to make it harder for 3rd parties to spoof "trusted" web sites. Google chrome will start to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC possible move to HTTPS for content delivery ?

2016-09-19 Thread bpa
farrina wrote: > I wonder if https was to come to pass if this would have any technical > implications for future streaming and the use of the above plugins I don't think so but with the BBC they do things as they see fit and not for the benefit of users (i.e. apple HLS streams, users of their a

[SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC possible move to HTTPS for content delivery ?

2016-09-19 Thread farrina
I recently noticed that the BBC UK homepage is now showing as encrypted (using https) Interested, poking around I located a BBC Blog note written by a Paul Tweedy, a BBC Lead Technical Architect - see here '' (http://bbc.in/29GCmEO) explaining the rationale behind the change and their future inte