Thursday, 17 March 2011

Extra security with HTTPS

Today people use social to connect and keep in touch with friend, actors and actress use social network, such as Facebook, twiter, to chat and up date their story to their fans. As a technology make people more comfortable and convenience, there is one thing that we shouldn't overlook that is the security of personal information. This lead Twitter to apply new system to their website; BBC news reported Twitter users get extra security with HTTPS.

"Twitter users are being given the option of logging on to the site through a secure connection" (P1). Twitter make a decision to use HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) technology, which is the technology that use with internet banking, in order to protect user's information from hacker. Even though it does not sound like a big problem because using Twitter doesn't concern with money, but if you are a celebrity with plenty followers, hacker could send spam or malware or phishing to you which is not good.

Security is very important for internet provider, this must be the first thing internet providers think about. Internet is infinite world, we can access to every thing we want by one click. It likes to side of coin, one side is the advantage of internet which make our life easier, another side is disadvantage of internet, as every one can access to whatever data they want, it's also easy for bad guy to access to your data too. Internet provider should look carefully to this problem. Although some personal information aren't so important but I believe that no one this world would love to see a stranger steal your information; it could be even worse when you saw that stranger use your information and pretend to be yourselves, which is the current problem of some social network users. I think it is better to protect than let problem become worse to the point that we can't solve it any more. As we are users, we should take care of our personal information by ourselves too.

References
Twitter users get extra security with HTTPS.(2011, March 16). BBC News. Retrieved March 17, 2011 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12759922

5 comments:

  1. As I'm one of the social network users, I see lots of advantages from it.For examples,it's used to comunicate with other people,update information and many more.And at the same time there're lots of disadvantages using social network sites.I don't think thai people play an important role about security that much and there're nothing much we can do about it.But,to prevent the problem since the beginning, we shouldn't post or update personal and important information online at first place.

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  2. I think the most important reason is that using HTTPS protects your private communication from spying governments who have no right to be reading them anyway.

    One thing I like about Gmail is that the default is HTTPS for all email - so that emails to and from me and my friends, colleagues, you and others cannot be snooped on in transit by government spies and other nasty sorts of people. This is not a big problem for people in teh US, although even the US has illegally and immorally spied on its citizens private communications, but it is a very big deal for people in repressive, authoritarian nations like China which keep their people ignorant on a whole range of topics by blocking a lot of information and by throwing people into prison for freely stating an honestly held opinion. I think it's good that the citizens of such ugly governments are given as much protection as possible so that they can peacefully state and share their opinions about things that matter to them, and the option of HTTPS is a big help.

    Of course, China and other nations are so draconian and repressive that they block entire services like Twitter. Still, for those who believe that truth telling and knowledge matter (like Simon) in the face of such efficient but despotic governments (like Jack), it is good to have HTTPS available.

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  3. I also agree with Wow - it is common sense to be careful about what you post. Once you click "send", it's too late to change your mind.

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  4. I think network has plenty of advantage.Internet has imformations that we want to know.So,China government block entire servises like facebook, twitter, and youtube.China government don't want Chinese citizens know the truth. So,China government can easily to control people.I don't think it is good for country and people.Everyone should have the right about knowing truth.If it invariably conceal the truth is not good for country's develop.

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  5. Internet is a social network, it is convenience to communicate with my friend and anoter people. So, security is very important for people because there are many people surfing the internet but they don't know someone can espionage their information. My friend ever hacked my hotmail but i don't know.When I know, I feel very angry.However,I cannot solve this problem. If they have more security, it is very good. Especially, making a financial transaction by internet.

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