Re: Wachovia's web page security
- From: "Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Jan 2006 05:04:34 -0800
Terry wrote:
> Gordon Burditt wrote:
> > >I understand that anyone can get an SSL certificate. Is it not true
> > >that if you are using a SSL site for identity theft that you will be
> > >prosecuted?
> >
> > If I get a SSL certificate in the name of my company, "Scams 'R
> > Us", on what grounds would they have to prosecute me related to the
> > SSL cert? Since few people actually bother to look at the name in
> > the cert, it would probably be just as effective. And I'm not
> > committing fraud if that really *IS* the name of my company.
> >
> > Now, if I got one with the name of the company I'm pretending to
> > be by presenting fake documents to the cert authority, they
> > could prosecute for that. But it isn't necessary.
> >
> > Actual identity theft does not require a cert to prosecute.
> >
> > Gordon L. Burditt
>
> The point is that having a SSL page does offer some security. Going to
> a site that doesn't have one, like Wachovia, and entering you personal
> information is asking to be taken. At least having an SSL certificate
> subjects you to ligation if you use it for a crime.
I don't think you understand what SSL security is. All is does is
allow the browser to encrypt the information that you're posting to the
server, and generate some handshaking to make sure where it's posting
to is who they say.
But that doesn't mean the people receiving the information at the other
end aren't unscrupulous.
.
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