[mario]

Mark,

To be completely honest, I never put much trust in SSL anyway. If you look historically (see link below), it seems that only as of fairly recently one can assume that SSL/TLS is secure, with proper combination of version and cipher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Cipher

I wouldn't be surprised that security organizations that have know-how and resources can read through it effortlessly.

I feel much more confident about eBay security measures than ssl. In other words, what actions can an intruder do if they already have my ebay credentials that would harm me? Thanks to eBay security measures, not much, or at least not much without me noticing and being notified.