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Thu 2007-10-25

The logo doesn’t make it secure

Filed under: — josh @ 06:43

http://www.greatreads.com.au/the7deadlysins/competition1.htm

See the protocol on the front? On the page, net to the big verisign logo:

We guarantee that every transaction you make on our website will be safe. Our secure server software (SSL) is the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. When an order is received, SSL is again used to unscramble the message, check that it came from the correct sender, and verify that it has

Has what? It’s a mystery.

What is it with these half-baked web pages?

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