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how are google forms different than other forms on a website?

• bdhe 15y ago
  how are google forms different than other forms on a website? That was poorly phrased. In "normal" websites, a form sends information to the web server and SSL ensures that no passive or active adversary listening to the wire can compromise our information. What the company does with the information is entirely unknown but hopefully they store it in a secure manner (cc no.s, for eg.) In the case of Google Docs, all you know from SSL is that your information is securely going to a Google spreadsheet, which is information in the clear. This is different from securely connecting to a BoA server, for eg. I guess, to avoid this phishing, people must also learn to never trust forms that are hosted on Google Docs for sensitive information because the standard use case for Google docs is not to securely store information.