I can't think of any good reasons not to use it. For the most basic of sites anyone who is serious and wants to protect consumers does what you can. Nothing i

I can't think of any good reasons not to use it. For the most basic of sites anyone who is serious and wants to protect consumers does what you can. Nothing is every 100% perfect, but not using SSL does seem like a pretty basic miss. Just a quick glance at their site and I noticed that the forms are posting to relative paths like /user_session and just do a this.form.submit in the javascript. I didn't dig in so maybe I am missing something, but it seems insecure. There were a few scripts loaded via https, but didn't appear to be the login. YC or not doesn't matter (at least to me), this is basic stuff that shouldn't be missed. Captured from Chrome dev tools on the submit of the login form. Password is passed in plain text below. authenticity_token:EqtHVWqGXo0b/yZ/pmFcslTzzyhsjJNwewhEBkRLJ9M= user_session[login]:test user_session[password]:test user_session[remember_me]:0 user_session[remember_me]:1 commit:Login