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Originally Posted by baddog
A couple bucks for an SSL Certificate which is renewed yearly (as I recall).
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Correct. And they are pretty cheap now, used to cost about $600 a year, now its under $100 IIRC.
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Originally Posted by baddog
I don't think his complaint was about having to give the info, I think he was complaining about a lack of a security cert so he can.
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Right. They need the info for compliance reasons, this I understand. Its just shoddy to request such info in an unprofessional manner.
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Originally Posted by Shoplifter
Considering most of these programs will sell your email and personal info anyways SSL seems to be unnecessary...
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Thats a whole different topic that also needs to be addressed, but the fact that sponsors have one bad practice and thats tolerated does not mean they should have two bad practices and we should tolerate those, too.