Most of the time security is an issue only on commercial websites. The secure systems are there to protect your credit card number and other financial information. Minutillo.info uses most of the same security techniques as these commmercial sites. We are trying to protect your password and your identity. We would hate for someone pretending to be you to post a story under your name. [ed. Horrors!]

There are two issues you might worry about with your password. Is it secure when it is being transmitted over the internet and is it secure when it is stored in our databases.

To keep your password secure when being transimitted over the internet, we have encrypted your password. This requires that you enable our security certificate. With this step complete, your password is safe when being transmitted.

We store only the encrypted version of your password in our databases. This is a one-way encryption. No one (or at least not without an immense amount of effort) could determine your password from the information in our database. They might be able to guess it, but they could not calculate it. Of course this means that no one here at Minutillo.info can tell you a forgotten password. In the interest of full disclosure, any one (that means me) who knows our database password could change your password.

Here the question is could someone who doesn't know your password still post stories under your name? We don't ask for a password on every page (that would get tedious). We use a cookie to verify your identity. These cookies are good for just one web transaction. If someone were to intercept a page transmission (difficult since when you're logged in the pages are encrypted [a bit over the top for this site, but easy, so why not?]) and gain access to the cookie the vulnerable interval lasts only until you visit another page, or a half hour, which ever is shorter. The chance of an intruder performing this feat is infintesimal.