[NTLUG:Discuss] OT? security comparsion

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Pearson wrote:

>On 11/28/05, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
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>>SSL is just as safe and secure as handing your credit card to the waiter
>>at your favorite restaurant.  The risk is not in the transaction, it's in
>>the establishment handling your credit card.
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>>I would never send a CC number via fax or http.  Neither are secure enough
>>for that kind of information, IMHO.  If the person getting the fax is
>>standing there at the time, and both your end and their's are hard wired
>>to real fax machines, still not for me.
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>>I don't have any problems with a phone, only with a live person on the
>>other end though.  There's a paranoia level each individual reaches when
>>they won't do a phone purchase.  You'd probably give Sears catalog your
>>number, but not Joe's Eats.
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>How about name, address, phone number and Social Security number
>with "http://form"?
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>Is there a way to tell if SSL is being used?
>Does the "https://form" indicate that?
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I don't care if it's https personally escorted from end to end, I'm not 
giving out that much information on a Web site.  I shopped for auto 
insurance on the Web recently.  Two sites (Standard Insurance and Al 
Boenker) asked for everything you listed AND the drivers license number 
- just to get a quote!  I picked up the phone and did it the old 
fashioned way...