Press release: “Effective July 17, the Central Intelligence Agency website began using industry-standard SSL (secure sockets layer) to enable secure communications between visitors’ browsers and our Web server and a digital SSL server certificate issued by a trusted commercial Certificate Authority to authenticate that visitors are connected to the CIA website and not a copy of it…To minimize inconvenience, visitors trying to connect to the old address for the CIA, the CIA Careers, and the World Factbook home pages will be taken directly to the requested page at the new address.”