Mozilla has Been Nominated for the “Internet Villain” Award in the UK

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Enterprises want to do business with you, as such, to be reputable and continue in business they must secure their systems properly. What you do on your client end of the system is just conform to their security requirements. It is at their expense to secure their enterprises. Enterprise systems securely identify you as soon as you access their payment system. The security of your system is entirely dependent on their servers for security during transactions. ISP sniffing by control agencies other than the enterprises involved is a gateway to massive abuse, and a new likely easier gateway for abusers to hack. Any agency (even the NSA) is unlikely to have the resources and security wherewithal at Amazon's disposal whose best interest is to provide that security. Banks themselves are notoriously less secure than Amazon. Whatever security you enjoy is because of massive enterprises like Amazon whose best interest is to constantly maintain and upgrade it against intrusions. This villain award to Mozilla is about as hokey as Al Gore building the Internet, and driven by a political agenda that preys on the unreasonable paranoia of some citizens. Finally it's pretty hard to get an enterprise page spoofed on Firefox operating in LL 4.4, maybe bordering on impossible given Google's indexing system. You'd almost have to try to do it, and probably have to use an alternative search engine of some sort that did not use Google's algorithms. Money/transaction security is best left to the biggest service providers. Government's proper role here is oversight and cooperation not intrusion and data collecting.

TC