Is Safari 3.2 secure?

Question

Does Safari 3.2 antiphishing do more harm than good?
I just read this over at oreilly.com, regarding the google safebrowsing.
"Every request is transmitted to Google over HTTP, i.e. in clear-text. This is not good. Here is why: Consider a web application that uses SSL to encrypt the session. If this web application were to submit private information about you via a GET request (i.e in the URL, such as a credit card number), this will now be transmitted to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/lookup in clear-text, allowing someone on your network segment, or any router in between yourself and google.com to sniff the information off the wire."

Answer 1

Here's another article:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-151119.html
If you don't want to go through the article, here's the essential part of it:
Another issue has recently been raised regarding the Google Safe Browse product. When running in enhanced mode, each request to visit a Web page sends the entire GET request to Google in the clear (with out the use of encryption). More disturbing is that even when you are visiting a Web page that utilizes SSL to encrypt the data, Google sends a copy of the decrypted GET request to their server. Hence if you were submitting a credit card number to an SSL Web server in a GET request, the entire request would be sent to Google in the clear. Effectively anyone on the wire between you and Google would have the ability to see your credit card number in the clear.
Simply put, in their efforts to protect the user from a potential phishing exploit that may expose personal information--Google themselves when operating in enhanced mode are exposing the personal information found within the users GET requests "in the clear" and easily intercepted even when the user is visiting legitimate Web sites that use encryption (SSL) to protect their personal information.
The good intentions of Google to protect users from phishing sites have gone bad in a number of respects:
• The data collected by Google and used with the Google Safe Browsing product is available to anyone with an Internet connection. Hence anyone with an Internet connection has the ability to search through the data to harvest the personal data of users perhaps inadvertently collected by Google.
• The transmission of the users personal data in the clear within user GET requests to even legitimate Web sites when operating in enhanced mode exposes the users personal data (even when they are doing business on a Web server that uses SSL to protect the users data) to anyone along the connection path between the user and Google.
While Google maintains that the user is warned that data may be sent in the clear when running in enhanced mode before they are able to enact it, there is simply no excuse for Google to make the personal information found within the URL updates available for harvesting to the Internet connected public through a simple "Google Search."