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Understand the signs of a secure website
From the course: Learning Computer Security and Internet Safety
Understand the signs of a secure website
- [Instructor] We can buy almost anything on the internet. We can also file our taxes, check finance account balances, pay our bills, and fill out forms that require us to first put in our personal information before we can submit that form. It's very important to be able to look critically at every website that wants your information. These websites need to be held at high standards of security to be able to take your data and pass it through various internet ports. Here's some ways to tell if the site is secure before giving it credit card numbers, social security numbers, or any piece of data that you don't feel safe sending over an un-secure connection. But what constitutes a secure connection? It's one that encrypts your data before sending it. The data is encrypted on your end, sent through the internet, and then decrypted on the other side once the form has been submitted safely. Now, I can see this padlock on…
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