Re: Amex login info secure?

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My previous response somehow got run together, so you may have missed the
point I was trying to make. When I type www.americanexpress.com in the
address bar and press enter, I'm immediately redirected to
https://home.americanexpress.com/home/mt_personal.shtml, which is secure
by virtue of the "https" protocol. That's where the login boxes are, on a
secure page which causes the lock symbol to be displayed in the status
bar. Does that not happen for you?


Mister.Fred.Ma@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 13, 8:45 pm, Gary Smith <bitbuc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not necessarily. www.americanexpress.comredirects tohttps://home.americanexpress.com/home/mt_personal.shtml, so the login
itself is secure. My bank does the same thing. That's better than having
you enter a usename and password into an unsecured page.

I looked up shtml on wikipedia. It doesn't exactly give the
impression that shtml is for security.

I did in fact phone Amex, but the front line person couldn't explain
the lack of https, or of a lock symbol in the lower right corner.

Again, the question here relates to security of authentication info,
not necessarily security of the session after logging in.


Tom Willett <tompep...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's how logins work.
|The initial "home" page does not
| appear to be secure, but there is a small "lock" symbol next to the "LOG
IN"
| box. This implies that after you login the link becomes secure. Better to
| call and ask.
|
| "

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio



--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio
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