Thread: http - how secure is it?
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Old 28-09-2021, 11:58   #30
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Re: http - how secure is it?
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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
Try taking off your tin foil hat for a few minutes.
News sites do not need to use https, of course, they can choose to.
Of course that is an extreme example, but today, what benefit is there for a site not running https?


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Originally Posted by Dude111 View Post
Well more people use the https side. Some on older browsers cant so they use the HTTP side...
And herein lies your issue with https, you are using an unsupported & insecure browser on an unsupported & insecure OS, not much anyone apart from you can do about that.

As I said before, there is no excuse today, for any website not to allow only https connection.
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