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RE: Re: Secure Intranet?


From: <Danny.Carroll () mail ing nl>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:14:03 +0100

If HTTPS is not secure enough, than why do banks use them?  Just
wondering... 

Because *most* people see the litle padlock in the status bar and think that it's secure.
So the banks humour them.

On the other hand it *does* provide some, if not fairly trivial security.

-D
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