Over the next several days, we’ll update our site to add SSL, which is a layer of security and hack protection. This will protect our visitors as well as ourselves from the various forms of online invasion and information theft. Basically, the site and any users will benefit from a two-way layer of encryption that has proven very effective in blocking hack attempts. It essentially provides a secure channel both for us and for you. Previously, our security only protected us; SSL keeps both ends of a connection safe and enhances the safeguards we already had.
It’s a bit complicated to implement, though, so you may see a security warning next to our URL, or your browser may warn you that the site is unsecured during the process. Don’t worry; we’re sorting it, and we haven’t been by mad hackbots from wherever.
When it’s fully implemented, you’ll see that our URL begins with “https” instead of the old “http”.