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Answer by Lenne for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

If we disregard that all payments should go over https and be encrypted, it would probably be easier to wiretap a cable than intercepting what you send upwards to the satellite.

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Answer by Sr8120 for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

The public internet isn't necessarily safe. However, if you're paying bills on a website that is encrypted with SSL/TLS, you're relatively safe, especially if it's encrypted with TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.

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Answer by Simon Wainwright for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

Be sure you have a strong internet password that is not easily guessed. Hesitate using your phone for money transactions; you are opening yourself up to credit and identity theft each time. Would you...

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Answer by Lie Ryan for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

For HTTPS sites, you should have little to worry about. Most websites especially important sites that handles personally sensitive data like banking and emails are running on HTTPS nowadays. If you're...

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Answer by crasic for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

I would like to specifically address the question on why security of the underlying mode of communication is not as important as the encryption of the message. You are communicating with your bank to...

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Answer by Simon for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

The physical support you use to transport the information doesn't make it more or less secure. Communications nowadays are all encrypted using protocols such as TLS. This means that the information...

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Answer by schroeder for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

Satellite is not safe. Neither is cell data, wifi, or cable Internet. None of it is safe at the layer that you are talking. And that's not the layer that needs to be safe. It's the data that goes over...

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Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

We bought a house. We need internet for basic research, email and paying bills, but there is no internet... Even a dedicated hotspot will not give us a stable connection. We are planning to get...

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Answer by Zenilogix for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

Provided that your bank website is at an "https" address and your browser is showing you the "lock" symbol, you are safe.HTTPS encrypts your data so that anybody who might be able to intercept your...

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Answer by Rob for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

Many of the answers seem to agree that because you would be using TLS you can rest assured. There seems to be some disagreement between whether landline, wired Internet or satellite Internet is...

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Answer by ownagesbot for Is it safe to pay bills over satellite internet?

As people have mentioned, it is mandatory that the websites you use for buying things are TLS encrypted and such. As people have also said, no particular type of internet connection (wired, cellular or...

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