| Re: Digest Authentication [message #179940 is a reply to message #179938] |
Thu, 20 December 2012 19:06   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 12/20/2012 3:57 AM, M. Strobel wrote:
> 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".
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> HTTP is like a postcard: everybody transporting it can read it. Same thing with e-mail.
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> 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.
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> /Str.
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Even at home your packets are not safe. For instance, if you're using a
cable modem, you'll be on the same cable as everyone else in your
neighborhood. And with a little bit of free software (basically the
same as they use at the internet cafe), it's not hard at all for a
hacker to see ALL the traffic on that cable.
And it's not necessarily your neighbor - it could be someone on an
entirely different continent who got a trojan on your neighbor's computer.
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