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The 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
by pyre 14y ago
The 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.