That's a false premise, though. Even though it's one of the most popular applications, SSL is used for much more than online credit card transactions, but also for many more transactions which do not have the same legal protections as credit cards do in the US, including stock trading, electronic check transactions, wire transfers, etc. For many of these transactions, the authentication is crucial, as you may not have any recourse if something goes wrong with your confidential data.
You just made Ian's statement valid, just the amounts involved are substantially increased, and I do use certificates for pop3/smtp as well..
ok stock values in the $100,000's obviously $900 then becomes a viable amount, on the other hand so does $40... My point wasn't so much the amount as the point pop3 has no definite value attached, yet the password could be stolen, other packets sniffed and if you know the bank account number you could potentially get into their bank account...
I so wish banks would use a different number/name for online banking, same with my creditcard company, they use my credit card number to take payments, all anyone needs then is the 4 digit expiry and mmmm
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