05-16-2019, 11:12 PM
I spent a chunk of my career in IT security. Apple — or more accurately, their Safari browser — is just letting you know that the traffic to this site is not encrypted. It never has been, and is no more or less secure than it’s ever been.
If you visit the site from a computer browser you’ll notice it doesn’t have the lock.
The risk is that under specific circumstances someone could potentially “see” your password to this site. Maybe they could then access the super premium board and get all the really good tips. There are plenty of security bugs in sites that don’t display a warning message.
As one who has worked many years in security, this bothers me not one bit. We don’t put in credit cards, we don’t post our health info, and while I’ve spent my share of ca$h on fishing gear, I don’t actually do my banking here. Yes, probably the admins should enable TLS so we don’t see the message. But that’s just me.
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If you visit the site from a computer browser you’ll notice it doesn’t have the lock.
The risk is that under specific circumstances someone could potentially “see” your password to this site. Maybe they could then access the super premium board and get all the really good tips. There are plenty of security bugs in sites that don’t display a warning message.
As one who has worked many years in security, this bothers me not one bit. We don’t put in credit cards, we don’t post our health info, and while I’ve spent my share of ca$h on fishing gear, I don’t actually do my banking here. Yes, probably the admins should enable TLS so we don’t see the message. But that’s just me.
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