What are the risks if Im accessing an https:// site through an http:// Circumventor?
The short answer is that if you just want to check your Hotmail e-mail from a school or work computer, you’re probably safe; you should only worry if you’re sending highly sensitive information from a repressive country like China or North Korea. What follows is a more complete explanation. Most URLs on the Internet begin with http:// , meaning that the information you send them is not encrypted. When a site asks for sensitive information like credit card information, the vast majority of the time, such pages are located on https:// URLs. This means that the information you send to them is encrypted and cannot be intercepted by any of the machines that pass the information along. So for example, you visit PayPal using an https:// URL, which means the link between you and the PayPal server are encrypted: [You] <==encrypted connection==> [https://www.paypal.com/] But you visit Yahoo using an http:// URL (without the “https”), which means the link between you and the Yahoo server is not e
