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Digital Certificates Much like a fake ATM machine, an unethical hacker could use technology to direct a user to a false web site when they are thinking they are going to a trusted website, even if they are using SSL. When typing in https://, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) will pop-up a dialog when it encounters a digital certificate that it doesn't trust (i.e., a potential fake ATM machine) as shown in Figure 11: Figure 11 - IE6 Security Alert In many cases, a user may just click "Yes" without realizing what they are doing (as we did before) and then provide the unethical hacker with a lot of information - like their credit card number and billing address. After all, it really seems like just an annoying dialog. Luckily, the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) experience is different in a profound way. Here is an example of IE7: 9

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Digital Certificates
Much like a fake ATM machine, an unethical hacker could use technology to direct a user to a false
web site when they are thinking they are going to a trusted website, even if they are using SSL.
When typing in
https://
, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) will pop-up a dialog when it encounters a digital
certificate that it doesn’t trust (i.e., a potential fake ATM machine) as shown in Figure 11:
Figure 11 - IE6 Security Alert
In many cases, a user may just click “Yes” without realizing what they are doing (as we did before)
and then provide the unethical hacker with a lot of information – like their credit card number and
billing address.
After all, it really seems like just an annoying dialog.
Luckily, the Internet Explorer 7
(IE7) experience is different in a profound way.
Here is an example of IE7: