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Shellshock and other assorted computer security stuff
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 16 Oct 2014, 02:19 ---Windows XP shouldn't be used on the public internet anyway,
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... without appropriate care and protection. Some of us can manage our computing infrastructure reasonably safely.
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 16 Oct 2014, 02:19 ---I believe there's options to disable SSLv3 support in newer versions of IE, as well, so it doesn't even try.
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One problem is that such settings are often not exposed, but in the area where you have to know what you're doing. For instance, the command to force TLS only in Chrome is a command line one.
pwhodges:
Note: the change of the forum to https means that Tapatalk users will need to delete the forum from their app and then add it back in; this will force it to fetch the changed address from the server.
jwhouk:
I was wondering. It seems to be working again, though.
pwhodges:
It's happened without? Even better - perhaps what I did just jumped the queue (cache) somewhere.
bhtooefr:
It is worth noting that, looking at what Firefox (now 33) is saying, it's not happy about there being content sourced from non-secure sites on this page.
So, I decided to change my avatar to pull from https://bhtooefr.org instead of http://bhtooefr.org, to help matters (although your avatar contributes to the problem, too)... and it reverts to no avatar. D'oh! (I just uploaded my avatar to the forums directly, though...)
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