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[milo christiansen]

Oh no, now there is a chance that people can snoop my unencrypted (eg, not HTTPS) wireless traffic before it reaches the internet proper. What a disaster. /s

Honestly, why is anyone in the least bit worried about this? If your traffic isn't already encrypted, then any server your traffic is routed through could listen in, WPA2 or no. The only real worry I can think of is wireless intranets and such. Use HTTPS or a VPN, preferably both.

(Speaking of HTTPS, someone should point Toady at Let's Encrypt...)

[nenjin]

Yeah, I'd really appreciate if the forums ran off of HTTPS. If for nothing else than I'm tired of Firefox warning the connection is insecure every time I try to log in.

[MoonyTheHuman]

TOADY ONE, WE SUMMON THEE. GET  HTTPS CERT AND USE IT PLEASE.

[Tiruin]

Yeah, I'd really appreciate if the forums ran off of HTTPS. If for nothing else than I'm tired of Firefox warning the connection is insecure every time I try to log in.

I recall requests can either be PM'd to Toady One, or...one could invariably use the 'report' feature, although that would be a polar opposite of its intended use.
Better to just PM him And I agree. Everytime I logged in at public PC areas, I'd get that 'connection insecure' mention too.

[da_nang]

And the arms race continues; another ransomware spotted.

[nenjin]

From the Toad:

Quote from: nenjin on Today at 08:03:05 am

    The last few years browsers have started more aggressively notifying you when the connection is insecure.

    I spend a lot of time on these forums and I know others do as well. Is there anyway we could get the forum running on HTTPS? I think it'd make a lot of us feel safer browsing on the forums.

    Thanks!


Yeah, we've been looking at that, but it's a mess.  Once the next release is up and stabilized, we might take some time with it, since it'll be a long process -- we also have to upgrade other aspects of the server to get the next SMF patch to work.

According to people that have looked at what's being sent back and forth, I'd recommend making sure you don't use your username/password combination elsewhere if you are using the forum on coffee shop wifi or something.

[milo christiansen]

There is hope on the horizon!