{"id":1319,"date":"2017-07-17T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/?page_id=1319"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:26:57","slug":"why-doesnt-facebook-have-an-ev-cert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/projects\/web-certificates\/why-doesnt-facebook-have-an-ev-cert\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn\u2019t Facebook have an EV cert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at the world\u2019s most known websites, Facebook and Twitter are at the top of the list. They\u2019re huge companies and everyone, everywhere knows who they are. They might even expect these companies to offer their users confirmation of their identity online, at least while logging in. This can be done by the presence of an EV cert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1325 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Fb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Fb.png 318w, https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Fb-300x26.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1324 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/twitter.png 405w, https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/twitter-300x21.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has an EV cert but Facebook does not. Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, why don\u2019t you verify your identity so your users know they\u2019re logging in to your site and not a look-alike? It would help users avoid losing their passwords to fake websites, as advertised here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecopypasteblog.com\/facebook-fake-login-pagefake-login-script-2\/\">http:\/\/thecopypasteblog.com\/facebook-fake-login-pagefake-login-script-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at the world\u2019s most known websites, Facebook and Twitter are at the top of the list. They\u2019re huge companies and everyone, everywhere knows who they are. They might even expect these companies to offer their users confirmation of their identity online, at least while logging in. This can be done by the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1214,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1319\/revisions\/1357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}