Silenus
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2007, 07:27:02 PM » |
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Sorry, I have been away. SSL and HTTPS is a good idea, especially as I see when I log in that all my information (including, apparently my password) can be read by a third party,
I know about security more from the user end, but I suppose I would ask, What do business sites, for example, Amazon.com, use for encryption?
It has to be something that everybody can use, and I imagine few people on this site are running an OS older than, say, Windows 2000, or at least, Windows 98. I know they are out there, but then, you have to draw the line somewhere.
Those operating systems are no longer supported, though people may still be running them. It seems to me that some may still cling to Windows 2000, as I did for a long time, because they don't want to change to XP, or, worse, Vista. 2000 was the last one that allowed the user reasonable control over all the workings of the machine. But I seem to recall that 2000 also could not handle some encryption methods.
So ... my point is, there must be some trade-off, one way or the other. You cannot please everybody, everywhere, all the time. Can Mac users access the site? XP users? or, maybe 2000 users? Don't worry about Linux users, as Linux is always up-to-date, or ought to be. :-)
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