You can make things more secure or less secure no matter the user. Also: if one desktop doesn't check SSL certificates and the other desktop does, then one des

You can make things more secure or less secure no matter the user. Also: if one desktop doesn't check SSL certificates and the other desktop does, then one desktop doesn't even enable the user to be secure. Checking SSL certificates is a pretty recent thing btw. E.g. various mail clients accept any self signed certificates silently.