Strangely Unaffected

I tried to place a bid on an online auction site for a laptop. The auction ends tomorrow, and I was operating according to a misguided belief that since nobody bid on it yet, nobody will. Hey, it worked once with my speakers, it could happen again.

Anyway, I was writing my credit card details, and when I pressed "submit" I got a warning message saying that "although the information is encrypted, it is being broadcast on a non-secure channel". Or that the site was secure, but the information is being broadcast without it. What? Are you serious? This is not a search item, it's fucking money! How can you not encrypt and secure that sort of thing?

I'm not worried about buying online. Heck, I've got more T-shirts that I bought online than that I bought in actual stores. But the reason I felt comfortable with that is that I knew that the information is encrypted. Maybe it's just a weird temporary problem. Maybe that site just doesn't know how to work with Firefox right. And to think that this site is the first one in Israel that instituted a policy to take care of the customer.

Oh well. I guess I won't be able to get a good laptop for practically peanuts. I probably wouldn't be able to do it anyway, but you can't win if you don't try.