Easy there tiger. I ordered more than one cable from some small, dodgy Yahoo store that did not use https. It happened (even if you didn't see it).

HTTP over wired is not secure but it requires physical presence rather than proximity to sniff. It's kinda like security by obscurity.

> There was NEVER a time where credit card info was sent over http. When are you talking about?!

Amazon launched in 1995, and SSL only launched the same year, so they might have taken plaintext credit card info for a short while.

That's a technicality, though.

Well, even then, 802.11 didn't come out until '97, so no one was ordering from Amazon over wireless then!