User:Bender the Bot

HTTP → HTTPS
The purpose of this bot is to convert existing external links on Wikipedia, wherever possible, from HTTP to HTTP Secure (HTTPS), i.e. from an unencrypted to an encrypted transport protocol. There are three reasons for using HTTPS: (i) data is sealed from eavesdropping on the internet cable (privacy) which also prevents censorship, (ii) data cannot be manipulated (integrity), and (iii) data came from the correct source (authentication). Rather than further elaborating (but have a look here), here are some news reports emphasizing the importance of each point.


 * Privacy (prevents eavesdropping and censorship)


 * Integrity (prevents data manipulation)


 * Authentication (prevents phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks)

Tasks

 * ✅ Archive.org (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ Google News, Google Books (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ YouTube (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, American Civil Liberties Union (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ The Guardian (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ Yahoo.com (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ New York Times (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ The New Republic, The Atlantic, Wired, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, Handelsblatt, Foreign Policy, ForaDeJogo (WP:BFRA)
 * ✅ Vox, Nobel Prize, Office of the Historian, Ars Technica, British Museum, Boston Globe, TechCrunch, Oyez, Cornell Law, Supreme Court, United Nations
 * ✅ ProQuest, ProPublica, NASA, Science Daily, FindLaw, Mother Jones, IEEE Spectrum, The Diplomat
 * ✅ Knesset, Whitehouse.gov
 * ✅ Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
 * ✅ LacusCurtius, Digital South Asia Library, Perseus Project, Hebrewbooks.org
 * Find a Grave, National Science Foundation, ESPN
 * ❌ German Football Association, University of Manitoba