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I agree that it's all perception, and that even with wildcard SSL at $500/year (what the cost has traditionally been), it's worth it to protect your customers'

by donw 17y ago

I agree that it's all perception, and that even with wildcard SSL at $500/year (what the cost has traditionally been), it's worth it to protect your customers' data. What scares me are companies that allow a front 'login' page on a non-SSL domain, and have everything else on their domain name via https, allowing for easy man-in-the-middle attacks.

lucumo 17y ago
> I agree that it's all perception, and that even with wildcard SSL at $500/year (what the cost has traditionally been), it's worth it to protect your customers' data. I suppose that depends on the data. $500 keeps one of my servers running for 6 months. For a bank the security is very useful. For a site like HN where the only sensitive data is the password, it isn't so much.