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Monday, May 23, 2011

Is online shopping security fundamentally broken?

Pretty much every website handling financial transactions uses a certificate-based trust model. They use signed SSL certificates from a public certificate authority within a cryptographic signing infrastructure - or to put it another way, you trust them because your browser doesn't tell you not to.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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