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But it quite literally is: insecure (adj.) (of a thing) not firm or fixed; liable to give way or break. not sufficiently protected; easily broken i
by ancarda 9y ago
But it quite literally is:
insecure (adj.)
(of a thing) not firm or fixed; liable to give way or break.
not sufficiently protected; easily broken into.
A webpage loaded over HTTP is easy to tamper with. Let me give you an example of traffic over HTTP that is secure -- apt repositories; because you're only retrieving payloads protected by PGP, so the actual payload is firm, fixed, and not easily broken into.
How else do you define insecure? Have I misunderstood the definition?
- tokenizerrr 9y agoI define insecure as a machine/user getting compromised. Malware, phishing and the like. Anyway, your example is a good one as to why it's weird for Chrome to label these things as insecure.
- ancarda 9y agoInsecure can't be used as a drop-in replacement for compromised though; Being insecure will get you compromised. One distinct thing might lead to another distinct thing
- MaxBarraclough 9y ago> I define insecure as a machine/user getting compromised So a bank using plaintext HTTP doesn't qualify an insecure?