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Side Hustle School

#1435 - Q&A: Can I get away without buying an SSL?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

To have a secure website, you have to purchase and install a certificate known as SSL. Is this really essential?


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0:00.0

The simplest healthy habit to start this new year is one for your dog.

0:04.0

Every day, more dog people and more vets are quitting the kibble,

0:08.0

kicking the cans, and feeding their dogs dog food that's actually well-food.

0:13.0

The farmer's dog food is developed with vets made fresh from real meat and veggies,

0:17.0

portioned for your dog and delivered right to your door.

0:20.0

Get 50% off your first box of smarter, healthier pet food at the farmers.com slash start fresh.

0:27.0

Today we're going to look at the exciting thrilling topic of SSL.

0:39.0

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer.

0:42.0

There's also a successor to SSL called TLS Transport Layer Security.

0:46.0

As I said, thrilling. I know you're on the edge of your seat.

0:49.0

This is why I subscribe to Side Usal School.

0:51.0

Out of all the podcasts I could listen to, all of that true crime stuff,

0:54.0

all of those daily news podcasts, etc.

0:57.0

What I really want to hear about is obscure technical terms.

1:00.0

Actually, this one is not that obscure. It's actually very relevant.

1:03.0

If you want to have a website, you need to pay attention.

1:05.0

When you go to a website, it begins with either HTTP or HTTPS.

1:10.0

Now, you may know this already. You may or may not even notice it when you go to a website.

1:14.0

But chances are you have probably been to a site that you go to this website,

1:17.0

click a link or something, and it gives you this ominous warning.

1:21.0

It asks, are you sure you want to visit the site?

1:24.0

It says something like, this site is not secure.

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