Hello steemians, it's your boy @desmoniac and am here with another banging, interesting and breath taking series titled "BE ENLIGHTENED". This series will be aimed at bringing to lime light, the hidden nuke and crannies of knowledge, things we most often neglect or overlook but have intense effects to our daily dealings.

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Today, we will be looking at **THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN http and https.

What is the difference between http and https ?
Time to know this with 32 lakh debit cards compromised in India.
Just like they say;

precautions are taken, not until there's an actual caution as action and reaction is equal and opposite (newton's third law of motion)

Many of you may be aware of this difference, but it is
worth sharing for any that are not.....

The main difference between http:// and https:// is all about keeping you secure.

HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".. If you visit a
Website or web page, and look at the address in the web browser, it is likely begin with the following: http:///.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using
the regular unsecured language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the Website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an
Http website! But if the web address begins with https://, that means your computer is talking to the website in a
Secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your Credit/Debit card
Information, you should automatically look to see if the web
address begins with https://.

If it doesn't, You should NEVER enter sensitive
Information....such as a credit/debit card number.

So please RESTEEM (You may save someone a lot of grief).

Also, While checking the name of any website, first look for the domain extension (.com or .org, .co.in, .net etc). The name just before this is the domain name of the website. Eg, in the above example, http://amazon.diwali-festivals.com, the word before .com is "diwali-festivals" (and NOT "amazon"). So, this webpage does not belong to amazon.com but belongs to "diwali-festivals.com", which we all haven't heard before.
You can similarly check for bank frauds.
Before your ebanking logins, make sure that the name just before ".com" is the name of your bank. "Something.icicibank.com" belongs to icici, but icicibank.some1else.com belongs to "some1else".

Simple but good knowledge to have at times like this