*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 27, 2024, 12:11:47 PM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 1690853
  • Total Topics: 118356
  • Online Today: 861
  • Online Ever: 2235
  • (October 29, 2023, 01:32:45 AM)
Users Online

Recent

Author Topic: Insecure connection?  (Read 1202 times)

Offline TheBlackCrane

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 774
    • Tales of the Black Crane
Insecure connection?
« on: January 28, 2017, 05:39:07 PM »
Not sure whether this is a problem or it's been raised before, or which board to stick this on, but logging in to the site I'm getting an Insecure Connection warning - google telling me log-in details, messages etc could be scooped up by malign influences (it didn't actually call them malign influences). Not something I've had before though, so just wondered if the site's security settings etc all ok?

Not my PC as far as I know as I've run scans today anyway and not appearing on other sites.

Just thought I'd mention it, anyone else seeing this?

Cheers

Rob

Online Westfalia Chris

  • Cardboard Warlord
  • Administrator
  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 7477
  • Elaborate! Elucidate! Evaluate!
Re: Insecure connection?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2017, 07:08:59 PM »
Hi,

do you use Firefox? If so, apparently the most recent update is more restrictive when it comes to https vs http connections. Since the forum as of now does not yet support https connections, it is classed as an insecure connection (in that communication between your computer and the forum server is not encrypted by an SSL certificate).

It should be more of an "more aware of it" issue rather than an actual security problem, but we'll have to see.

Offline TheBlackCrane

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 774
    • Tales of the Black Crane
Re: Insecure connection?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2017, 10:31:42 AM »
Ahha - yes, I am using Firefox, thanks for the clarification!

 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
4 Replies
2209 Views
Last post September 26, 2011, 05:41:43 PM
by Red Orc
5 Replies
2496 Views
Last post November 01, 2012, 04:24:09 AM
by Marine0846
9 Replies
2834 Views
Last post May 06, 2013, 09:58:56 AM
by alastair
12 Replies
1385 Views
Last post September 16, 2017, 11:50:02 AM
by Vanvlak
5 Replies
1093 Views
Last post August 07, 2020, 09:16:44 PM
by Grimtuff