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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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SSL, the Secure Socket Layer, was designed and intended to encrypt the traffic between the client [your browser] and the server [the web server].
It is concerned with encryption of real world name and address, details, credit card information, medical data, and similar issues.
It is not concerned with general web traffic.
It does not hide the fact that you have visited a site.
It does not clear your browser history
Anyone concerned about the 'not secure' messages in the address line is falling for univeral paranoia created by those seeking to markert universal SSL for commercial gain.
The content of the web site is out there, in public (though not public domain), for all to see.
Your internet service provider knows you use the internet. They can track and log all the sites your IP address visits. The only thing they cannto log during your time online is the actual content of a transaction with an SSL protected page.
Here, you do not entere any sensitive peronal data anywhere unless you choose to. Hence the 'Not Secure' message in the address bar is interesting but unimportant to you. If you use real life details here, that is your choice. That message tells you that you take a risk and you choose the level of risk you take. But you do not need to enter anything here that actually identofies you, and we do not take money from you.
We could add SSL to the entire site. It carries a cost. Lack of SSL may put three visitors off. IT will not put of those who want to read things on the site.
Unless, of course, they fall for Google's extortion racket
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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