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Yes to all of that. And ..

We use the latest in bank-level 256-bit SSL encryption to protect your information, and your passwords are securely encrypted.

Right. 256 bits, like everyone else, like it makes some critical difference over 128 unless you're the freaking NSA, and like anyone even bothers trying to break into a TLS session. Not encouraging.

First thing I always check is whether the site's behind a gateway, so let's try and connect on 22:

  $ ssh etacts.com
  The authenticity of host 'etacts.com (173.203.202.141)' can't be established.
  RSA key fingerprint is ec:c2:2f:fe:ef:7e:06:a3:a5:f0:a3:54:04:79:2a:16.
  Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
  Warning: Permanently added 'etacts.com,173.203.202.141' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
  sailormoon@etacts.com's password: 
  Permission denied, please try again.
Tsk. Early days I know, but .. if you become popular for storing a large database of people's login creds for gmail .. that's a nice juicy target.

And I actually found the mention that they're encrypting the passwords, like that means anything (the key is obviously somewhere on the server, and once they're in, they're in) to be more worrisome than not.

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