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Offline Filler.

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Logins not secure?
« on: March 15, 2017, 12:12:53 am »
Not a biggy... but on my old, soon to die laptop, the login area on the top right disappeared. 'And I thought... that's funny'. Now when I log into that, it tells me it's not secure. Yet on this other virgin white proper laptop (which was clean and sweet and fast until I clicked 'yes' to windows 10), it lets me log in as usual. Even the login area is up there. Sad to see. I guess it's bin time.  :wave
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2017, 12:29:25 am »
Quote from: Filler. on March 15, 2017, 12:12:53 am
Not a biggy... but on my old, soon to die laptop, the login area on the top right disappeared. 'And I thought... that's funny'. Now when I log into that, it tells me it's not secure. Yet on this other virgin white proper laptop (which was clean and sweet and fast until I clicked 'yes' to windows 10), it lets me log in as usual. Even the login area is up there. Sad to see. I guess it's bin time.  :wave

It refers to the protocol that is being used. Some browsers are now flagging HTTP connections for passwords. Given the lack of financial consequences, it is not a major concern. Ben is planning a switch to HTTPS once SMF sort some of their shit out.
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2017, 01:11:51 am »
Ah... that explains it. ;D ;)
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2017, 06:40:16 pm »
Quote from: SP on March 15, 2017, 12:29:25 am
It refers to the protocol that is being used. Some browsers are now flagging HTTP connections for passwords. Given the lack of financial consequences, it is not a major concern. Ben is planning a switch to HTTPS once SMF sort some of their shit out.

I know this isn't RAWK's fault but unfortunately a lot of people use the same password on multiple sites, so if there RAWK password was discovered it could lead them to being hacked elsewhere.

To be honest if you use the same password for sites like RAWK as you do for your important accounts like banking and email, you deserve everything you get...
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2017, 11:00:47 pm »
New Firefox has a bug which does this btw.
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2017, 11:28:55 pm »
Cheers the heads up. I only downloaded that on Wednesday.
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2017, 08:21:33 pm »
No one seems to have noticed so I assume nothing has broken but site is now https only and if you have a compatible browser i.e. anything recent supports http/2 so should be slightly faster.
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2017, 03:31:29 pm »
Oh Ben, we are not too busy arguing in the FSG thread to notice that the site is running faster...  :wave
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Re: Logins not secure?
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2017, 03:40:39 pm »
Just noticed as well - thought it might have been because I beefed up my Antivirus over the past couple of days...

Thanks for the great work! :wave
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