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| + | Him: Hmmm. I don’t see an SSL cert. Why would one go to HTTPS instead of HTTP? That’s just a way to see the certificates? | ||
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| + | HTTPS is a way to validate that the website you’re talking to is who they claim to be (and that it hasn’t been tampered with in transit). It’s really HTTP-Secure in that your web browser has to validate the information coming from the server as *actually coming from Google*. The way it does it using cryptographic certificates, signed by a globally trusted third party authority that says, “This website is who they claim to be.” It works through the transitive property – I trust the CA (Certificate Authority), the CA trusts Google, therefore, I trust Google. | ||
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| + | At the core this means that anything you do online, *_ANYTHING_* can be tampered with and/or modified by the company at will – and you’d never know the difference. | ||
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| + | Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure | ||
