Privacy awareness in Opera

A web-connected user-agent (a web browser) sends much information, that if you live in Sweden, now will be freely available to the military. Using content and transfer encryption has never been so important before.

This is a tip that will let you turn on a feature of Opera—the web browser—that will warn you every time you send data from a web form unencrypted. It will help rise awareness of just how much data you make available every day.

Turn on the warn insecure form feature. (Link works from within Opera only.) It will enable a dialogbox with a warning every time a form is attempted to be submitted over a non-encrypted connection. It will also let you cancel the transmission if you may change your mind about saying it across a non-encrypted connection.

I use this feature every day. It is just a small annoyance that reminds me that “the web is not private”. I live in Norway, so it is a good probability that at least some of my data gets routed trough over neighbours the Swedes.

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