diff --git a/pylast/__init__.py b/pylast/__init__.py
index 0909bd9..fb8fd41 100644
--- a/pylast/__init__.py
+++ b/pylast/__init__.py
@@ -42,8 +42,23 @@ __email__ = 'amr.hassan@gmail.com'
 def _deprecation_warning(message):
     warnings.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)
 
+
+def _can_use_ssl_securely():
+    # Python 3.3 doesn't support create_default_context() but can be made to
+    # work sanely.
+    # <2.7.9 and <3.2 never did any SSL verification so don't do SSL there.
+    # >3.4 and >2.7.9 has sane defaults so use SSL there.
+    v = sys.version_info
+    return v > (3, 3) or ((2, 7, 9) < v < (3, 0))
+
+if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+    import ssl
+
 if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
-    from http.client import HTTPSConnection
+    if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+        from http.client import HTTPSConnection
+    else:
+        from http.client import HTTPConnection
     import html.entities as htmlentitydefs
     from urllib.parse import splithost as url_split_host
     from urllib.parse import quote_plus as url_quote_plus
@@ -51,7 +66,10 @@ if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
     unichr = chr
 
 elif sys.version_info[0] == 2:
-    from httplib import HTTPSConnection
+    if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+        from httplib import HTTPSConnection
+    else:
+        from httplib import HTTPConnection
     import htmlentitydefs
     from urllib import splithost as url_split_host
     from urllib import quote_plus as url_quote_plus
@@ -131,6 +149,59 @@ RE_XML_ILLEGAL = (u'([\u0000-\u0008\u000b-\u000c\u000e-\u001f\ufffe-\uffff])' +
 
 XML_ILLEGAL = re.compile(RE_XML_ILLEGAL)
 
+# Python <=3.3 doesn't support create_default_context()
+# <2.7.9 and <3.2 never did any SSL verification
+# FIXME This can be removed after 2017-09 when 3.3 is no longer supported and
+# pypy3 uses 3.4 or later, see
+# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history
+if sys.version_info[0] == 3 and sys.version_info[1] == 3:
+    import certifi
+    SSL_CONTEXT = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
+    SSL_CONTEXT.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
+    SSL_CONTEXT.options |= ssl.OP_NO_COMPRESSION
+    # Intermediate from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
+    # Create the cipher string
+    cipher_string = """
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
+    ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
+    DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
+    DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA
+    ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
+    DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
+    DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
+    DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256
+    DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
+    ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
+    ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
+    EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
+    AES128-GCM-SHA256
+    AES256-GCM-SHA384
+    AES128-SHA256
+    AES256-SHA256
+    AES128-SHA
+    AES256-SHA
+    DES-CBC3-SHA
+    !DSS
+    """
+    cipher_string = ' '.join(cipher_string.split())
+    SSL_CONTEXT.set_ciphers(cipher_string)
+    SSL_CONTEXT.load_verify_locations(certifi.where())
+
+# Python >3.4 and >2.7.9 has sane defaults
+elif sys.version_info > (3, 4) or ((2, 7, 9) < sys.version_info < (3, 0)):
+    SSL_CONTEXT = ssl.create_default_context()
+
 
 class _Network(object):
     """
@@ -1098,9 +1169,15 @@ class _Request(object):
         (HOST_NAME, HOST_SUBDIR) = self.network.ws_server
 
         if self.network.is_proxy_enabled():
-            conn = HTTPSConnection(
-                host=self.network._get_proxy()[0],
-                port=self.network._get_proxy()[1])
+            if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+                conn = HTTPSConnection(
+                    context=SSL_CONTEXT,
+                    host=self.network._get_proxy()[0],
+                    port=self.network._get_proxy()[1])
+            else:
+                conn = HTTPConnection(
+                    host=self.network._get_proxy()[0],
+                    port=self.network._get_proxy()[1])
 
             try:
                 conn.request(
@@ -1110,7 +1187,15 @@ class _Request(object):
                 raise NetworkError(self.network, e)
 
         else:
-            conn = HTTPSConnection(host=HOST_NAME)
+            if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+                conn = HTTPSConnection(
+                    context=SSL_CONTEXT,
+                    host=HOST_NAME
+                )
+            else:
+                conn = HTTPConnection(
+                    host=HOST_NAME
+                )
 
             try:
                 conn.request(
@@ -4291,7 +4376,15 @@ class _ScrobblerRequest(object):
     def execute(self):
         """Returns a string response of this request."""
 
-        connection = HTTPSConnection(self.hostname)
+        if _can_use_ssl_securely():
+            connection = HTTPSConnection(
+                context=SSL_CONTEXT,
+                host=self.hostname
+            )
+        else:
+            connection = HTTPConnection(
+                host=self.hostname
+            )
 
         data = []
         for name in self.params.keys():
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1e99522..171fb43 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ setup(
     version="1.6.0",
     author="Amr Hassan <amr.hassan@gmail.com>",
     install_requires=['six'],
+    # FIXME This can be removed after 2017-09 when 3.3 is no longer supported
+    # and pypy3 uses 3.4 or later, see
+    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history
+    extras_require={
+        ':python_version=="3.3"': ["certifi"],
+    },
     tests_require=['mock', 'pytest', 'coverage', 'pep8', 'pyyaml', 'pyflakes'],
     description=("A Python interface to Last.fm and Libre.fm"),
     author_email="amr.hassan@gmail.com",