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The urgent need for HTTPS - SSL Tutorial
From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
The urgent need for HTTPS
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to discuss why it has become urgent that web developers start using HTTPS on every single website. As our use of the internet has evolved, so has our usage of HTTPS. When the web was first created, HTTPS was there at the beginning, but it was used primarily for encrypting ecommerce pages. We knew if we wanted to buy something online, we needed to have a secure way to do that so we could send our credit card information securely over the internet using HTTPS. As the web continued to grow and develop, more information started going online, and people started putting whole areas of data online that needed a password to be able to get into them. Those password protected pages started using HTTPS because if we need to password protect them, then we should also keep them secure by encrypting them whenever that information is transmitted over the internet. Otherwise, it's freely available to anyone who might be snooping. So as that effort progressed…
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