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THIS IS NOT SECURE.
Authored by: paulsomm on Apr 02, '05 05:33:01PM

Its still better than everything going cleartext.

The problem posts decrying "this is not secure" is that it is MORE secure than nothing. Sure, it can be man-in-the-middled. And, sure, if you're on a cable modem or school network it's likely someone will try. But it's still much better than no encryption at all.

I applaud those trying to use even marginal security, since most people just don't care or don't have a clue how to try. I think the real "fix" here is for the vendors and standards organizations to start taking security much more seriously and start pushing to include secured technologies by default, not as options.

If you're truly so paranoid that SSL'ing your connection still frightens you, I don't think you want to be keeping your documents on a publically accessible server anyway.



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