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Firefox warning

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Hi,

To my surprise I now get a warning from Firefox that FSdeveloper has no secure connection and that my login name and password can be intercepted!
I logged in anyway but am curious to know how come.

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Cheers,
 
Verisign and other companies sell identity certification services and when a certificate expires, the URL you click to FSDeveloper could be hijacked to a cloned site, which then could record your session, or even place new software into your computer. This would only happen if you clicked from a webpage or linked message you had not followed before, links before the certificate expired remain valid and the numerical code for the website, the IP address, can't be hijacked.
In large part, the message is more of an incentive to webmasters to renew to avoid embarrassment, as the type of breach these certificates prevent affect random browsers, a type of web traffic this site does not target.

I know about this because I have been using a small, local, less-than-highly-profitable ISP for years and I put up with his 1980's style, ASCII based threat prevention that blocks virtually all gmail addresses, for the simple fact that my email address is my initials. When I converse with my attorney I have to use Yahoo. What gets me is that every web browser is complicit in this extortion, in that I can not permanently flag saw.net as safe. It is my browser, my email and the likelihood of being redirected to a para-site from checking messages is virtually nil.

If you are reading this message: your session has been declared secure by =rk= certification services, Roby
 
I appreciate that, Rick.
I am now (finally and after a 10 day lasting motherboard and internet, 200 Euro's costing problem) back on my FS desktop PC and I do not have this warning here on Chrome, so I guess that the =RK= certification services have done their job:).
 
That message has been pretty standard for every login field since the last few Firefox releases.
 
Once we have finished the move of the site to the other host we'll also add a SSL cerificate to prevent such warnings. Browsers are more strict on this recently. In Chrome this will give the green lock as well.
 
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