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>Symbian: Opening a secure connection. Continue? >IE6: You are about to view pages over a secure connection Why did early 2000' software had such obsession
by garaetjjte 6y ago
>Symbian: Opening a secure connection. Continue?
>IE6: You are about to view pages over a secure connection
Why did early 2000' software had such obsession with asking user about secure connection?
- darksaints 6y agoMore importantly, why did they ask you about secure connections, but automatically assume that insecure connections were okay?
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- neurostimulant 6y agoIIRC https/tls consumes a lot of overhead back then, both on server side and client side. These days https is so fast no one think about its overhead over plain text connection anymore. Not sure if that's the reason for the prompt though.
- danilocesar 6y agoDark ages my friend. Luckily we know better nowadays =)