Bad SSL: security awareness in interesting times (1)
[ traduzione italiana ] Secure websites, browsers and the difference with plain text websites The details behind a (web) connection may not be interesting for a general audience and anyway not immediately meaningful to bother. The intention of this post is to make a rather delicate issue understandable to as many non-technical people as possible: an effort is made to clarify the substantial aspect of the issue and its implications, trying to avoid the geeks' stuff and jargon. TL;DR Securing communication with a website takes more than using https . Technology and cryptographic science behind the security of internet communication is highly complex but nevertheless, at any given time, publicly and freely available best practices exist to keep the level of actual security consistent with the purpose of a given resource. This is nowadays important, given the indiscriminate surveillance system operating on global scale which stores - in an unbelievably detailed timeline -