It says: 986Forum "Website is not safe" - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

BRAN · 08-27-2023, 11:03 AM

Dear moderators: Any intentions to make it safe(r)?

mikefocke · 08-27-2023, 11:15 AM

A bit more information defining "It" would perhaps help.

What device, OS, version, browser app, version, anti-virus, version.

Sometimes it is just a vendor trying to sell you some "protection".

Starter986 · 08-28-2023, 02:28 AM

You think I'd get away with half my **************** if there were moderators? This isn't Rennline, lol.

BRAN · 08-28-2023, 07:17 AM

Haha...let's see. And then they gonna getcha.

Latest Edge browser on uptodate Win11pro, Norton360 with all the bells and whistles.

--> it says: The connection with this website is not safe! Translates into "it has not certificate". Translates into "it's prone to be hacked"

redpepperracing · 08-28-2023, 10:26 AM

If I can take a guess at what you are referring to, in Chrome (and Edge since it is based on Chrome) the default for the last few years is to assume all sites should be encrypted, regardless of the site function. it used to be that you only encrypted pages that were for sensitive information (payment details, personal info, etc), which at the time was a bit more hardware intensive on the server side, which is why it wasn't the default. Now handling encrypted data is much less resource intensive (mostly because the hardware is exponentially faster, but also there are dedicated hardware ASICS for it, if you do heavy encrypted data processing) and is inherently more secure, so any site that isn't encrypted now gets flagged as such, as you are seeing. If you inspect the site URL you will see it starts with http:// which means it is not encrypted. Encrypted sites would start with https:// You can see the difference if you go to the Pelican main site which is encrypted on all pages.

In this case, there isn't a whole lot of risk in using the site unencrypted, the very slight risk being if someone did happen to snoop your data (say over a public WiFi network) they could see your username and password being sent in clear text. If you use different passwords across sites, you should not have too much to worry about, but making that determination is up to you.

I have no issues with it personally. I should also say that the people running this site should be able to switch it over to an encrypted site fairly easily, so I'm not sure why they haven't.

LoneWolfGal · 08-28-2023, 02:53 PM

Of course it's not safe! The danger of catching the 986 bug from this forum is extremely high. Then your every waking thought is liable to involve repairing, maintaining, or driving a 986. Not that that's a bad thing.

Gilles · 08-29-2023, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by LoneWolfGal

Of course it's not safe! The danger of catching the 986 bug from this forum is extremely high. Then your every waking thought is liable to involve repairing, maintaining, or driving a 986. Not that that's a bad thing.

Hahaha.

Thank you LoneWolfGal..! You made my day

BRAN · 08-29-2023, 09:40 AM

This website is safe, now!

That was fast. Thank you, mods!

redpepperracing · 08-30-2023, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by BRAN

This website is safe, now!

That was fast. Thank you, mods!

To be honest, I never even checked, it may have been https all along, and I always used http.

Gilles · 09-02-2023, 01:36 PM

I originally got a 'Not Secure' note on my browser, then it went away and today appeared again..?

tcoradeschi · 09-03-2023, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilles

I originally got a 'Not Secure' note on my browser, then it went away and today appeared again..?

Change the URL to https and the warning will go away. Nothing wrong with the site.

beater986 · 09-07-2023, 08:37 PM

The SSL cert is approaching it's expiration period: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=986forum.com

This isn't a huge deal, but your browser will make it seem like it is.

redpepperracing · 09-21-2023, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by beater986

The SSL cert is approaching it's expiration period: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=986forum.com

This isn't a huge deal, but your browser will make it seem like it is.

Well, now it's a bit more if an issue, since it is now expired. It doesn't really mean too much, but I can see the posts are way down so it's scaring people off. Someone from Pelican needs to fix it.

Gilles · 09-21-2023, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by redpepperracing

Well, now it's a bit more if an issue, since it is now expired. It doesn't really mean too much, but I can see the posts are way down so it's scaring people off. Someone from Pelican needs to fix it.

Yes, please!
Because I don't know how..

redpepperracing · 09-22-2023, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilles

Yes, please!
Because I don't know how..

There is nothing you or I can do, we have to wait for a site admin to fix it.

stateofidleness · 10-08-2023, 08:09 PM

Still using an expired certificate...

who runs this site nowadays? seems like way less traffic, and generally sort of... (don't flame me) "neglected".

vkmotorsports · 10-09-2023, 07:34 AM

The login will be unencrypted, if using HTTP, or encrypted using an expired certificate, if using HTTPS, and to be safe on your end, the readers of this forum must strictly not re-use their passwords anywhere else.

Have a unique password for this forum, and change it when the site gets encrypted properly with a valid HTTPS/SSL certificate. that's my recommendation.

Until then do not do any transactions here.