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This logic is a few years old, but back when WEP was popular and HTTPS less-so, I was nervous about buying things online over such a connection. WEP was/is eas
by explorigin 11y ago
This logic is a few years old, but back when WEP was popular and HTTPS less-so, I was nervous about buying things online over such a connection. WEP was/is easily crackable and without HTTPS, that credit card info is plaintext over the airwaves.
Nowadays we have WPA2 and HTTPS is more common. But I still prefer an ethernet cable.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> back when WEP was popular and HTTPS less-so SSL has been used for online card transactions for longer than Windows 95 has been out, it was basically invented for that purpose. Was there really a time when WiFi was in common use and people carried out financial transactions over HTTP?
- cortesoft 11y agoThere was NEVER a time where credit card info was sent over http. When are you talking about?! HTTP over wired is not secure, either.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> There was NEVER a time where credit card info was sent over http. When are you talking about?! Amazon launched in 1995, and SSL only launched the same year, so they might have taken plaintext credit card info for a short while. That's a technicality, though.
- cortesoft 11y agoWell, even then, 802.11 didn't come out until '97, so no one was ordering from Amazon over wireless then!
- explorigin 11y agoEasy there tiger. I ordered more than one cable from some small, dodgy Yahoo store that did not use https. It happened (even if you didn't see it). HTTP over wired is not secure but it requires physical presence rather than proximity to sniff. It's kinda like security by obscurity.