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by jrockway 5709 days ago
Amazon is violating its own privacy policy by allowing users to interact with its site insecurely.

Two wrongs do not make a right, but when you can implement a technical measure to protect your users from rogue ex-employees, you should do it. A legal contract does not prevent data loss, it merely allows you to punish the person who stole the data. SSL prevents the data loss in the first place.