[BNM] SSL Certificates

[Ali]

Alistair K. Macdonald
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-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Adam Liptrot
Sent: 03 March 2009 15:50
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] SSL Certificates

I think comparing services is probably not the best way to go as they all
have reasons for protecting what they do.

I'd say Flickr's main objective is to protect account passwords (I'm
guessing here) and the functions the account-holder can perform - i.e.
deleting photos. I'm guessing the complexity of securing photos marked
private was one they looked at and decided against.

Other sites may have everything secured because the data itself is what
people might be after, rather than the account.

If keeping the data private is important then protect it. The account
protects the data but also the functions which can be performed on it.

Adam


2009/3/3 Ali <ali at nubz.com>

> As David said if they want they shall have it - I'm just checking on
> opinions as I can see all these big sites allowing you to login and access
> private pages via http only (all of them do) - the overhead of SSL is
> obviously a concern at the mass populous level of website and maybe not so
> much on a wee site like I am engaged in - that could explain their default
> setting being not to use SSL.
>
> Ali
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Barney
> Livingston
> Sent: 03 March 2009 15:29
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] SSL Certificates
>
> On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:22:25 David Pashley wrote:
> > > youTube, twitter, flickr, facebook all do regular http login and
> > > subsequent session pages with no ssl in sight
> >
> > Facebook do logins via https. As mentioned, flickr is via yahoo's https
> > login page, twitter is in no way a poster child for how to do things
> > properly.
>
> Twitter does allow you to do everything over SSL though.
>
> Barney
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