Website Security
Ever wonder what websites can learn about you when you visit?

You came here from
Your Browser is CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html).
You are (none)
Connected to (none).
Your IP address is 38.107.191.101
The Universal Time Coordinate is .

That information was contained in your web browsers request for this page. Of course any information you give thru a fill out form or e-mail message can be stored by a website and they can also use cookies to store that information on your computer. The next time you return to that website, they request their cookie and all that information is available to them again. Cookies are nothing to fear as long as you don't give information to someone you don't want to have it in the first place.

When you do want to share sensitive information with a trusted website, Like an online purchase using a credit card, You want to be sure it goes to the right place ind isn't intercepted or altered along the way. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the most popular method of message varification and encription since it is used by Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as other web browsers. SSL uses "digital certificates" to varify the identity of the website owner and public/private key incription to insure it is not intercepted along the way.

Links

The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Secure Email Encryption Using PGP
Verisign Whitepaper

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