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Secure Order Form:
A encrypted page on
a website
which makes easy online payment possible for the customer while
simultaneously guaranteeing security from hacker-, spyware- or
virus attacks intended to spy out credit card and password
data.
The volume of sales over the Internet is booming. Unfortunately online criminality, too. If a sales website cannot put their visitors at ease about the security of their sensitive data, it will lose a lot of possible sales because they won’t enter their credit card information.
A SSL encrypted Secure Order Form provides such a safe platform to make the secure sale possible. It needs to show the following features:
The address in the browser address bar shows “https” instead of the usual “http”
The address bar in the Firefox browser is yellow instead of white with non-encrypted sites
In the address bar and at the window bottom in the status bar the symbol of a closed padlock appears
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Example of a Secure Order Form showing the necessary features of a SSL encrypted site.
[Secure comes from Latin securus = without care; se- = free from and cura = care;
Order goes back to Latin ordinem = row, rank, series, arrangement;
Form comes from Latin forma = form, shape, mold, case]
