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Originally Posted by dgatwood
If they tried that, you'd see a record surge in credit card fraud, because you can typically make minor tweaks to a cable modem's configuration and sniff all the traffic for the entire neighborhood. Without HTTPS, those numbers would be sent in the clear.
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"Yeah, well, what's so secret about your credit card number anyway. Are you trying to hide something illegal???"
Actually, yes, we are all aware of how ridiculous this is -- that was @
Barcey's (very obvious) point.