R-click: view info - what is this? 1

[Aishaa]

When you right click a page in Netscape and choose "view info", there is a line at the bottom that says:
Security: This is an insecure document that is not encrypted and offers no security protection.

Does that mean that anybody with the program that it was done in can go and make changes to it? If so, can that be prevented by removing any reference to which program it was done in?

 

[Arion23]

When the security information tells you it is an insecure document, it basically means that information sent to you on that page has not been encrypted in anyway, and would be (relativly) easy for a third party to intercept and take a peak at. Any information submitted from a form on such a page could also be intercepted and viewed.

A secure page (such as used in submitting credit card and personal information for e-commerce etc) - usually identified if it is using the https:// protocol - encrypts the information as it is being sent from or to your browser.

The only way for someone else to modify the page you are referring to is to have the ftp login and password for the site - the information you are seeing does not relate to this and so you shouldn't be worried.