[userbinator]

while making the assumption that the user understood it's talking about the transport layer behind the scenes

I remember using an early (90s?) browser that explicitly said "Secured Connection" in the status bar with an icon that featured a depiction of a network cable. I don't remember the details, but I think that may have been in the early days of SSL.

[GreymanTheGrey]

imo it's the use of the word "secured" at all that's the problem, not the context to which it's applied. "Secured" can mean many things to many people, whereas "Encrypted" is much more descriptive as to what's actually happening and much less subject to interpretation.