"Password Protection?" Topic

"Firefox will display a lock icon with red strike-through Padlock-RedLine in the address bar, when a login page you're viewing does not have a secure connection. If you enter a password on such a page, eavesdroppers or attackers could steal it.

You will also see a warning message when you click inside the login box to enter a username or password."

I get this message from time to time after my computer is reset and cleaned. Is it a problem?

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

No. TMP doesn't have your financial information, so there's nothing significant at risk.

When we have a few extra bucks, we should upgrade to https standard, and the warning will go away.

TMP uses HTTP protocol, so everything that passes between TMP and your computer is in plain text (well, not the pictures). So if someone had a computer between the two, they could read everything that transpires.

With the HTTPS protocol, the messages are encrypted, so our would be hacker could not read your data as it passes between TMP and you.

Not a problem for TMP because there's really nothing worth encrypting. Now, if you use the same password for your account here that you use for your banking, you should change one of those passwords.

If your bank uses HTTP, get a different bank.

Get a VPN app also, they're cheap.

Honestly, if you are using HTTPS, you don't really need a VPN. All it does is encrypt your encrypted data, at least until it reaches the VPN server, then it goes out unencrypted to the other end of the encrypted link.