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Is it safe to enter your card details on a website when you can't see the padlock symbol?

31 replies

policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:01

Well? IS IT?? Because I want those slippers what I saw.

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policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:07

[examines holes (and bits of stuffing escaping therefrom) in current slippers]

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Pixiefish · 26/09/2007 21:08

no- not if there's no padlock

fuzzywuzzy · 26/09/2007 21:09

take a look on the address bar if it reads https instead of just http it's secure.

Marne · 26/09/2007 21:10

No

NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:11

nope.

what slippers? maybe we can find them elsewhere

80sMum · 26/09/2007 21:13

Yes, I think so, but only if the url begins htpps.

policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:15

If I lock you all in a room, would you be able to come up with some sort of consensus?

It does say https. Tis Jones the Bootmaker, so you'd think it would be alright, wouldn't you?

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80sMum · 26/09/2007 21:16

The "S" stands for "secure" so it should be OK.

NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:18

yes, s on end of http is secure.

what are you on? vista or xp? new fangled ie or earlier?

80sMum · 26/09/2007 21:18

I just pretended to buy something from Jones - and I got a padlock symbol at checkout! I wonder why you're not seeing one.

fuzzywuzzy · 26/09/2007 21:18

that wot I said...nobody listens to me >

policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:21

OK, have done it. If my account gets emptied by villains, 80smum, I am coming after YOU.

nappies - these are they

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policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:22

I was listening fuzzy, it's just everyone was contradicting each other and it was making me want to cry.

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NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:28

hah!

i just grinned, then guffawed... then thought, 'actually.......'

those are really nice aktch.

policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:31

You see some horrors when slipper-shopping, don't you? And then lovely things for hundreds of pounds.

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NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:45

slippers... hard to get excited about them isnt it?
im a barefoot sort of girl meself... esp now the laundry room is linked to the house and i dont have to sprint across cold concrete in december rain to get to my clean undies...

NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:46

but even so, those are nice.

policywonk · 26/09/2007 21:52

I would do the barefoot thing, but our floors are always covered with unidentified sticky substances and very sharp bits of broken toys. Dunno who's supposed to be cleaning up around here

(Just read your story about your youngest son on the Verity thread - how absolutely terrifying.)

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NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 21:57

on forst thing - ah. yes, understand completely. we are in new house, toys almost all out in the barn, got a housekeeper for cleaning mode atm. and so floors are not sticky. or riddled with deathtrap toys. but it wont last... (and if money doesnt flow a bit better, we may not have the HK for long )

on the second - i know. scary shit.

policywonk · 26/09/2007 22:06

New house, barn, housekeeper, laundry room now connected to the mothership... you don't need slippers cos you are being carried around the house in a litter.

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NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 22:17

pah, the service round here is shocking at times... i had to wipe my own arse the other day
can you believe it??

WendyWeber · 26/09/2007 22:25

Those are lovely but I hate indoors-only slippers because I always forget and nip outside in them

policywonk · 26/09/2007 22:28

Ah, well now, Wendy, I wasn't going to take that bit completely literally. Tis a bit like 'Dry Clean Only', no?

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NappiesGalore · 26/09/2007 22:41

ooh, playing with fire there PW - dare you risk it??

tho, i have been known to drive to london (70odd miles) and the school run and even a supermarket trip in slippers.

you forget dont you?

policywonk · 26/09/2007 22:45

'Danger' is my middle name, nappies.

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