Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/12/06 05:15

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> A click-through agreement possesses all the elements that, in the US at
> least, constitute a valid contract, and to anyone familiar with
> contracts this much is obvious.

But if it's not delivered through HTTPS, then it could be tampered with
en-route to the visitor, so you can never quite be sure whether it was
*your* contract they agreed to, or some man-in-the-middle's contract.

And speaking of tampering with HTTP en-route:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

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