Is This Website Secure?

The Social Network Show welcomes back Lance Cottrell to the February 4, 2015 episode.

Lance Cottrell, security expert and Chief Science Office at Ntrepid, explains what a secure connection to a website really means. Although Lance shares somewhat complicated technical information, it is important that everyone understand what it means to have a secure connection to a website you are visiting and what it means if it is not secure. If you have ever gotten a message from your browser that says "not a trusted website", you can find out what this means if you listen to the show. If you do your banking online, you may want to listen to this show. If you like to connect to the internet when you are on an airplane, here about what "Gogo Inflight Internet" was caught doing.

Lance Cottrell is the founder and principle at Obscura Security. He founded Anonymizer Inc. in 1995.  Before that he created the Mixmaster anonymous remailer in 1993. He is a frequent public speaker at conferences such as the RSA Security Conference, Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference‚ the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe‚ ISS World. He is principal author on multiple Internet privacy and security technology patent applications. He took Anonymizer to a very successful exit in 2008, and is now Chief Science Officer of Ntrepid, the acquiring company. He holds a MS in Physics from the University of California, San Diego and a BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.