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Dear Apple, please fix this Safari security issue
1 point by ozzzy on Sept 24, 2012 | hide | past | favorite
Most bank websites (at least in Turkey) open a popup window to enter your credentials. I realized there is no way to tell if HTTPS is used if you use Safari.

Here are some screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/71G2Z.png http://i.imgur.com/vHQEa.png

This is very dangerous since it is not very hard to use mitm attacks to show user a different website.




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