Hello all,
This is my first post, and concerns the surprise I felt when signing up for the forum and seeing that no secure login has been implemented.
I remember setting up my first phpBB forum over ten years ago, and setting it up to require a secure connection.
Will this be implemented soon? It's 2017; I feel uncomfortable typing a password into an insecure page these days.
lastchancesaloon
Secure login for forum
Re: Secure login for forum
You're absolutely right - this is very poor practice.
SoftMaker should be ashamed of themselves.
SoftMaker should be ashamed of themselves.
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Re: Secure login for forum
Don't you think that you will run out of language before long; as there are circumstances of profound trepidation, where your statements would also be more pertinent.PeteCC wrote:SoftMaker should be ashamed of themselves.
I am an advocate of encrypted communication channels and would like to keep their discussion from becoming ridiculous or the whole topic from falling into oblivion.
“Hindsight is in the eye of the beholder.”
Re: Secure login for forum
Does a forum login really need to be secure? I use other forums (including phpBB forums like this one) which do have a secure login, but I don't see any security issues as long as forum accounts are not linked to customers' online store accounts.
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(Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.)
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(Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.)
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Re: Secure login for forum
If you only see financial risks in the possibility of network abuse, you are cool, but identity theft has more consequences than a mere loss of money. All kinds of comparisons and metaphors come to mind, but I do not want to go through all of that, yet again. If technology exists, that helps to exclude some of the more frequent attacks on user-accounts, why not use it. And when it is simple to deploy, why not use it?Alfred wrote:Does a forum login really need to be secure? I use other forums (including phpBB forums like this one) which do have a secure login, but I don't see any security issues as long as forum accounts are not linked to customers' online store accounts.
To claim that the secure login were “necessary” required that we knew all the risks, while all we have is just stories told on the media. You can look these up, yourself, then compare. My question is rather why we cannot connect securely to a site, if the possibility exists?
“Hindsight is in the eye of the beholder.”
Re: Secure login for forum
Oh, OK. Point taken!
La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever.
(Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
(Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)