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Community => Suggestions, Questions, and Comments => Topic started by: Calamity on April 10, 2019, 02:25:16 PM

Title: Site not secure
Post by: Calamity on April 10, 2019, 02:25:16 PM

Just letting you know that the site appears as not secure on my end.  Could just be me, could be nothing, but I’d thought that I’d mention it just in case it’s a problem.

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Wyddr on April 10, 2019, 02:34:58 PM

Dammit. Now North Korea has all my battle reports.

We're doomed.  ;)

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: The GrimSqueaker on April 10, 2019, 02:59:18 PM

NO COLLUSION! #fakenews

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Irisado on April 10, 2019, 03:41:25 PM

Nothing is showing up here.  What's the exact message that you are receiving?

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Calamity on April 10, 2019, 03:43:41 PM

Quote from: Irisado on April 10, 2019, 03:41:25 PM

Nothing is showing up here.  What's the exact message that you are receiving?

In the url, there’s no little lock symbol and it says Not Secure. 

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Alienscar on April 10, 2019, 04:34:30 PM

Quote from: Calamity on April 10, 2019, 02:25:16 PM

Just letting you know that the site appears as not secure on my end.  Could just be me, could be nothing, but I’d thought that I’d mention it just in case it’s a problem.

It is nothing to worry about Calamity it is just Google pushing their own agenda. Every Web address that is non-HTTPS gets this warning when using Chrome. HTTP sites, such as this one are still as secure as they have ever been. If you are using Android press the little 'i' that appears by the URL of any site you visit and you will get the same warning.

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Irisado on April 10, 2019, 04:36:22 PM

This is because the site does not use https.  As Alienscar says, it's not anything too concerning.  Kindred will be able to provide more details and/or a better explanation than me when he next logs in.

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: magenb on April 11, 2019, 06:41:24 PM

When you browse and post a website using HTTP, then the information is transferred to and from your machine in readable text. So someone could read the info if they intercept it.

HTTPS means the data is encrypted while in transit, so if someone intercepts it, it looks like garbage and has to be cracked open.

So from a browser perspective, your information that you send is not secure, not that the website has been hacked, etc. Its not a big deal if someone intercepts your post and reads it, since they could just browse the forum and read it any way :)

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: The GrimSqueaker on April 11, 2019, 09:00:56 PM

As a bunch of nerds, most of what we post is utterly unintelligible to those on the outside encryption or not.  :)

Title: Re: Site not secure
Post by: Kindred on May 1, 2019, 11:41:25 PM

In short, because of the ancient server and whm, it would be a huge amount  of effort to add a certificate and https to this site,...

It not going to happen until/unless Raine ever gets us to a different server