SHA 256 recently implemented. Change your bookmark to HTTPS rather than HTTP. It is no longer clear text.
Excellent -- bookmarks to the login page are changed.
However, of necessity, the regular site pages -- including the forum main page "Latest Articles" -- are still using the insecure (HTTP) URL and link refs. So if I click a link to the forum main page, it's an insecure link. Then the question is, during the login negotiation where my browser (which saves my password) is queried by the server, and responds with my (saved) password, is -that- exchange done with SSL encryption. I'm guessing it is NOT.
Same for any URLs to threads that I copy from the address bar and paste into email to a friend.
Any insight?
Sorry, this is incorrect. Please see my previous response to dayglored. This is a problem with the base HTML code for the login form. The SITE is secure (little green lock), but the password form is not.
I've used Wireshark to sniff the traffic between my computer and FR, and I've confirmed that my PW is still passed in cleartext.