the.com/secure
the comforting lie you tell yourself right before clicking the link
means To make something safe, fastened, or guaranteed against loss, attack, or escape — or to successfully obtain something you were after.
from Straight from Latin securus, a tidy compound of se- 'without' and cura 'care' — literally 'free from worry.' That carefree root also gives us 'sure' (a worn-down cousin that came through French) and lurks inside 'curate' and 'curious' on the cura side. So to be secure was, at heart, to have nothing to fret about — a meaning that drifted from peace of mind toward locks, passwords, and bolted doors.
- root meaning
- Latin securus: without care or worry
- weak link
- most breaches start with a human, not code
- false friend
- feeling secure and being secure rarely overlap
- padlock myth
- the browser lock means encrypted, not trustworthy
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