Posted on 10/21/2018 4:31:17 PM PDT by fatima
Do we really care if public pages (like FR) are encrypted ?
The world has recently become anal about ‘secure pages’.
To me, its about con-ning you into buying newer p.c.s, updating browsers, buying more memory.
Text is text, one byte per character, its not rocket science.
Google is down-listing sites that aren’t secure and coopting the industry into going anal about security protocols, its a plague if you ask me.
Are you playing with your time machine again !!
Just ran it and got the same result, “A.”
That is because Free Republic isn’t using the secure socket layer security protocol. All sits that are http//www as opposed to https//www are considered not secure anymore.
Actually it is. https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index works just fine.
Getting an A grade out of SSL Labs isn’t so easy nowadays. For the websites I manage I have to fiddle with the SSL settings quite a bit (particularly the menu/ordering of the offered ciphersuites) to keep SSL Labs happy each month while also not inadvertently locking out older browers. Jim did a good job.
Lol
The main pages of FR are secure. When you go to a post the page may not show as secure if people post images. The links to the images may not be secure and I have found many images on FR pages will not load for me due to my browser security settings. My version of Firefox also tells me the page is not secure because there may be images or other non-secure links on the page.
As I type, this reply page shows secure but once I return to the page for this thread it will again tell me it is not.
What you just did has no correlation with the security of the pages on FR. When you use the most secure login that means when you leave FR then you will have to sign back in when you return. That part is all about the cookie that is set in your browser but has nothing to do with the actual security settings on FR pages.
I installed Norton to clean up the system and that includes Safe Web. I have been warned on 2 or 3 web sites since then but never on FreeRepublic. I always use my own link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
Thanks -—I never even thought to look at security-—even when making a donation-——I haven’t had any problems,though.
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What’s that, an artificial heart gizmo?
It’s a master cylinder... No really, it is.
I’ve noticed this for awhile as well.
Why do you have anything to do with commie Yahoo?
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