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AgentFakku
03-16-2017, 09:55 PM
not the brightest person with computers

Fire Fox updates and got this new fangle thing (https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Protect-your-privacy/Insecure-password-warning-in-Firefox/ta-p/27861)

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should I be worried?

Skulkraken
03-17-2017, 04:00 AM
No. The makers of pretty much all of the mainstream browsers are each pushing for HTTPS to be used more often. Google especially wants to force site owners to have it active literally all the time.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/firefox-chrome-start-calling-http-connections-insecure/


Further work is planned in both browsers to highlight the use of HTTP. A future version of Firefox will include a warning immediately adjacent to the password box itself whenever the page is delivered over HTTP, and Mozilla plans to use the struck through padlock icon for every HTTP page. Similarly, Google intends to eventually include the "Not secure" message in the address bar for all pages delivered over HTTP, whether they contain passwords or not.

Why? At least part of the reason is that there's tons of money to be made off of users' everyday activity.

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/googles-chrome-hackers-flip-webs-security-model/


Google has solid business reasons to be aggressive in its HTTPS campaign. In contrast to closed-off environments like Apple’s App Store, Google loves the open web, where its search engine reigns supreme and its ads rake in the vast majority of the company’s $80 billion a year in revenue. To compete with mobile apps, Google wants web pages to be able to reach deeper into your computer’s resources, accessing the same sensitive information, like location and offline data, that apps routinely use. But if the web’s tendrils are going to extend further into our private lives, they first need to be secure. “You wouldn’t want a man-in-the-middle to be able to access those things,” says Tabriz, using the cryptographer’s term for hackers who intercept and eavesdrop on HTTP data as it’s traveling from your computer to a web server and back.

AgentFakku
03-17-2017, 09:39 PM
thanks dude

had to read it twice since im dumb and not too good w/ computers

Kotono
03-19-2017, 08:24 AM
You will start to see this warning on any login form without https, sadly.