If you have read my past articles, you may have noticed that I am a little annoyed by the low number of e-commerce sites using HTTPS encryption to protect their customers. While most do use encryption for payments, usually that is because they use the services of a payment processor, and because using encryption for the payment info submission pages is required by the credit card companies. As far as I can tell, very few e-commerce sites use encryption for displaying the shopping cart, collecting customer information about name and address, or the customer login, although I have an impression that larger e-commerce companies are better at this than smaller ones. Continue reading “A possible reason why many e-commerce sites do not use encryption?”
