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Should I trust a website that contains unauthenticated content but is still an https?

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Should I trust a website that contains unauthenticated content but is still an https?

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A web site is made up of lots of various elements, the text, images, forms, etc. When you visit a secure web site you may get the alert message “This web page contains content that will not be delivered using the secure HTTPS” In those cases it’s because the person who designed the site specifically decided not to deliver some of the site content securely. Usually they’ll put some of the information on a secure server, such as relating to credit card payments, etc. Some of the other stuff will be stored on a standard web server. If you get a message that says that the web site contains unauthenticated content you just need to be sure that the content you do want to be secure is secure. A secure web site never means that you can trust the web site. It means that the information you send to and from the web site is encrypted, which means that it’s verydifficult to intercept the information you are sending or receiving to the site. It doesn’t mean you can trust the web site though. You ha

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