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Originally Posted by ztik
Ive never once in all my years online heard of ISP's sniffing packets of random crap. They usually only do it when there is a reason to do it. Its not like there's people sitting there sniffing the billion gazillion packets reading them
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Its not really about ISP's sitting in their data center spying on you... though it could be a concern. Its about all the identity thieves and crackers out there who scour the internet for this type of info, constantly. There are numerous ways they can get in between the affiliate, and the affiliate backends.
Seeing as how many may have personal info, or sensitive company info stored on the backends of all these programs, it really is a little irresponsible not to make SSL available. Its brain dead easy to turn on... even if you use a self signed cert, its better than nothing.
Of course, SSL doesnt come close to solving every security problem out there, but it goes a *long* way for the amount of work involved setting it up. Its really as simple as setting up a typical webserver, with the added step of generating a cert.