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Design Brand Identity Basics Introduction to Brand Identity The Five Ws and an H

Posted by nfs
nfs
35,526 Points

I would love to point out that the <a href="http://salt.twinforrest.com/">SALT </a> website is not secure.

There is no green lock icon beside the URL and when the site information is viewed, it says that- the connection with this site isn't secure. Is it safe to provide such crucial info as credit card numbers, etc in such a website?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,946 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,946 Points

The security of your data is not determined by the protocol used to deliver the form.

What's important is the protocol the form uses to submit your data, which I determined by inspection with the dev tools to be https (secure).

I understand it is a bit of a "leap of faith" to send secure data from an unsecured page, and the site developer should have at least included some explanatory text on or near the button, or made the form page itself secure.