Posts Tagged ‘firefox security’

Firefox 3 Site Identity Security

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I am still exploring features in Firefox 3. Found an interesting new security feature called “Site Identity” to share with you. Browsing a normal Website, we might not have security concern. How about when you order goods online? Or application that need your personal or financial information? Make sure the party is trustable before send out these sensitive data.

How to know whether it is a trustable Website? Here the Site Identity feature comes in. This feature allows you to see whether the Web site has supplied information about their identity, who has verified that information, and whether they protect your information from eavesdroppers. This is just like you will make sure the person is trusted before hand over your money to him/her. Am I right?

Site Identity Levels

There are 4 types of Site Identity Levels. Each level provide different identity information. The higher level give better security. The site identity level listed from highest to lowest in sequence. (more…)

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