Thread: Insecure password warning in Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Prote...fox/ta-p/27861

been getting this recently... since version 51.

any thoughts?

Been getting the same warnings when logging into torrent and forum sites and the like, but not at banking and financial sites which, one assumes, have greater security protocols already in place.

No reason to fret that I can see. If someone hacks my Teakdoor account the worst they can do is boost my post count and maybe earn me a few reds...

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Firefox has identified that the page, or the connection you are trying to do your log-in is or might not be secure ... a bit dodgy.

Such as Teakdoor, for example?

^ yes I tried this but it doesn't work guess i'll have contact the owner anyone got his phone number?

"""If that doesn't work, contact the site owner to ask that they secure the site and your data with HTTPS.""""

Originally Posted by CaptainNemo

since version 51

It also screwed up my sites I had set to come up as my home pages when I open FF. It now opens with a single "launch page." But if I click on the home button it then opens up the four sites I have set as my home pages.

WTF...

...what I'm getting at is that the site is not https or apparently anything, and it might be an idea to look into that. I have a little poke around the various bits of the site, and a fair bit of it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while. I wonder who is looking after the nerdy technical backend these days? As one of the techy long-term members, I'm happy to help if desired. I have been a tech admin on a vbulletin site before, and I am professionally familiar with computery things.

Originally Posted by CaptainNemo

and a fair bit of it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while.

Best I can tell TD is still using the vBulletin 3.6.10 version "Copyright ©2000-2008"

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Originally Posted by CaptainNemo

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Prote...fox/ta-p/27861

been getting this recently... since version 51.

any thoughts?

Reading the explanation page ... it's about 'them' (the page you are looking at) not 'you'.

'when a login page you’re viewing does not have a secure connection'

'If a login page for your favourite site is insecure, you can try and see if a secure version of the page exists by typing https:// before the url in the location bar.'

So, basicially, your web browser, Firefox has identified that the page, or the connection you are trying to do your log-in is or might not be secure ... a bit dodgy.
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These cautionary alerts appear quite often when browsing with Chrome as well...

Frankly, I've found the likes of Firefox and Chrome to be suspiciously dodgy anyway - and both are promoted by the dominant paradigm to be the most superior in their respective classes.

I don't think so.

I once met a student who looked like Frodo, and brought me all his bits of computer and was highly fixated on things like Tor and Tails, and I just thought, who the fuck in the world is remotely interested in anything you (I mean him personally) do with your computer? He was odd, and related an encounter with a strange older man who knew things about him, and also came out with comments like "I'm hydrating, are you hydrating", apropos of nothing... or "I'm a damn good scientist" (he's not american, so it sounds weird), again apropos of nothing. I guess he was on the spectrum. The point being that the same people who love Tor and things of that ilk are sufficiently liable to become paranoid enough to not trust it - so why bother? I mean you'd have to fully study computer engineering and software to understand enough to know what was even possible or not to put your mind at rest... but on the more boring mundane level, not having https or updates seems a bit slack in same way as not changing the pw on your wifi router... I used to add an SSID label on my wifi router, so that when it came up on someone's search, it'd say "We know what you're up to"...