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People should stop thinking "geek". A mug punter is going to be freaked out that the advice that HTTPS means their data is secure will not care to understand te
by alan_cx 14y ago
People should stop thinking "geek". A mug punter is going to be freaked out that the advice that HTTPS means their data is secure will not care to understand technical BS that excuses the fact that HTTPS is not secure in this instance.
"We" expect HTTPS to mean secure and unbroken along the way. This tells us that HTTPS might not mean secure at all. It doesn't matter what geekery is used to explain it, its not what it says on the tin.
- pyre 14y agoThe options are: 1. Trust Nokia (or Opera with Opera-mini) and use the product. 2. Have no browser on low-end phones. This is more a case of Nokia's product not explaining the security trade-offs to normal people. By choosing to use this browser, you are making the trade-off that it's impossible to have a secure (unbroken) connection between you and a website. Period. There's a secure connection between the site and Nokia, and another one between Nokia and you. Nokia (or anyone that hacks Nokia) can listen in the middle since it's not a end-to-end secure connection. | It doesn't matter what geekery is used to explain it Nothing is every truly, 100% secure. People like black-and-white answers. People either want "it's secure" or "it's not secure." People can't normally handle, "it's secure-enough for these use-cases, but not for these other use-cases." A normal browser could easily trust a fake-certificate that was issued incorrectly by a trusted source. I'm unsure how you fit these sorts of things into your world-view, but it would behove you to do so. | its not what it says on the tin. If you can find a tin that says so, you should attempt a false-advertisement claim.