| Re: Digest Authentication [message #179938 is a reply to message #179921] |
Thu, 20 December 2012 08:57   |
M. Strobel
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Am 19.12.2012 18:40, schrieb dhtmlkitchen(at)gmail(dot)com:
> On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:08:59 PM UTC-8, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 12/18/2012 8:55 PM, xkit wrote:
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>>> On Dec 13, 8:15 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>>>> On 12/13/2012 7:49 PM, dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> If you're doing ecommerce (even if you're using Paypal), you NEED to use
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>> https. Otherwise your site is NOT secure. It is too easy to intercept
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> What it?
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> There are a lot of sites that navigate from http (not https) site to paypal. Are you telling me that this is a security issue? And if not, then where exactly do *you* see the security hole and what do you see being at risk (you wrote "everything" (including the moon?)).
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People doing stupid things are only an example of "how not to do it".
HTTP is like a postcard: everybody transporting it can read it. Same thing with e-mail.
When you are at home using the internet, you know the data packets go straight to
your provider, you suppose he has no interest in reading it. When you are in an
internet cafe, you never know.
/Str.
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