Complaint Site not secure? (No HTTPS)

[Converge]

I've only just noticed this, has this always been the case?

There is no https:// in front of the site URL and the connection is not secure.

Here are some examples in screen shots.

Just curious...

 

[Danke42]

It's always been that way. About a month or so Mozilla changed Firefox and started the freak out notice about the forum not being "secure".

It's no big deal; there is no financial gain to be had from hacking individuals on this site. Pretty well all you can do is embarrass someone by taking over their name and posting nonsense.

 

[Converge]

Yeah, I just realized all the other forums I go to are the same way. My firefox updated recently, that is why I didnt notice it before.

 

[Bufford]

Its a Fire fox thing, I wouldn't be concerned. Use a password that isn't related to anything that has to be secure.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Logins, i.e. passwords, are not secure, which IS a concern to some of us, myself included. As for the site as a whole, maybe not so much a concern.

Per OP's question, non-secure login hasn't always been the case on BF, BTW. The 'old' BF site under the VB software DID have secure (https) login.

Spark has said the new site will have an https cert in the coming week or so (see link below, and quote below that). Hopefully, that'll take care of the login security. A lot of sites don't rely on https as a whole, but at least DO use it for logging in, to protect passwords.

http://www.bladeforums.com/threads/member-logins-not-secure.1485720/

Firefox just started doing that. Regardless, we'll be adding a secure cert in the next week and getting https enabled. In the meantime, no CC information is entered or stored on our servers and any paid subscriptions are done on paypal's end, with their security.

 

[thurin]

Bladeforums has never used SSL.