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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16621 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #45 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:40pm Off-Topic replies have been moved to this Topic.
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Black Orchid Gold Member Offline Posts: 5813 Gender:	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #46 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:13pm: BO, try putting the s in the url: https://www.polanimal.com/forum/index.php OK I've got the new link now thanks. I hope others can find it.
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Reply #47 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm

Setanta wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:30pm:

Aussie wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:16pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 12:54pm:

They are looking for email addresses to spam, banking passwords, etc.

Okay...I 'get' the email password bit....but I am certain I do not send my banking passwords to this site. Or, was I, before you changed to the 'locked' thing?

Huh

Correct. It's probably overkill for a public forum. Any hacker could just create an account here if that's what they really want. But it is becoming standard, and easier to set up.

It's not overkill because it really has FA to do with BA details, email addresses, etc, passwords that's valid. Governments listen, and some of them are not very nice, they don't like what their citizens may have to say. No-one in a country like that would post here without encryption, it'd be insane to do so.

That doesn't make sense. Everyone can view what is posted here. Not just sneaky governments.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49342 At my desk.	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #48 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:48pm Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm: freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:13pm: BO, try putting the s in the url: https://www.polanimal.com/forum/index.php OK I've got the new link now thanks. I hope others can find it. Were you using a bookmark to access the site?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49342 At my desk.	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #49 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:49pm I have also wound back the advertising to what it has always been, up until last year some time. No more popups or ads embedded in posts. Let me know if you still get that.
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Reply #50 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:50pm

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:48pm:

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:13pm:

BO, try putting the s in the url:

https://www.polanimal.com/forum/index.php

OK I've got the new link now thanks. I hope others can find it.

Were you using a bookmark to access the site?

Yes and I've changed the bookmark now but others won't have a clue about the new address.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49342 At my desk.	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #51 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:51pm Perhaps someone could post it at Monk's forum.
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Reply #52 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:58pm

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm:

Setanta wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:30pm:

Aussie wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:16pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 12:54pm:

They are looking for email addresses to spam, banking passwords, etc.

Okay...I 'get' the email password bit....but I am certain I do not send my banking passwords to this site. Or, was I, before you changed to the 'locked' thing?

Huh

Correct. It's probably overkill for a public forum. Any hacker could just create an account here if that's what they really want. But it is becoming standard, and easier to set up.

It's not overkill because it really has FA to do with BA details, email addresses, etc, passwords that's valid. Governments listen, and some of them are not very nice, they don't like what their citizens may have to say. No-one in a country like that would post here without encryption, it'd be insane to do so.

That doesn't make sense. Everyone can view what is posted here. Not just sneaky governments.

It certainly does, no-one knows who is behind the screen names ideally. If everything sent between the posters computer and your server is encrypted, govt can't peek. They can see you visited a site but not any discourse you may have entered into. For all they know you just read it. Even that can be added to by VPN where all they can see it traffic to your VPN provider. Encryption is good.

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Reply #53 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:59pm

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:51pm:

Perhaps someone could post it at Monk's forum.

No thanks. There are no Monk members at PA! I can tell those I know of who are having problems but I can't do much about the others.

If I'd realised there would be a new link I would have informed them before the event. Oh well.

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Reply #54 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:00pm

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:59pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:51pm:

Perhaps someone could post it at Monk's forum.

No thanks. There are no Monk members at PA! I can tell those I know of who are having problems but I can't do much about the others.

If I'd realised there would be a new link I would have informed them before the event. Oh well.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

FD should set it up for polanimal to automatically redirect to the https port.

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Reply #55 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:31pm

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:47pm:

Setanta wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:30pm:

Aussie wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 1:16pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 12:54pm:

They are looking for email addresses to spam, banking passwords, etc.

Okay...I 'get' the email password bit....but I am certain I do not send my banking passwords to this site. Or, was I, before you changed to the 'locked' thing?

Huh

Correct. It's probably overkill for a public forum. Any hacker could just create an account here if that's what they really want. But it is becoming standard, and easier to set up.

It's not overkill because it really has FA to do with BA details, email addresses, etc, passwords that's valid. Governments listen, and some of them are not very nice, they don't like what their citizens may have to say. No-one in a country like that would post here without encryption, it'd be insane to do so.

That doesn't make sense. Everyone can view what is posted here. Not just sneaky governments.

Anyone can read, only sneaky govts know who posted what from their country. That is the whole point, protecting the identity of those in countries where their govt would not like their comments. No-one from the HongKong dissidents would post here for eg as their anonymity is compromised. The state would drag them away in the night.

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Reply #56 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:39pm

Setanta wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:00pm:

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:59pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:51pm:

Perhaps someone could post it at Monk's forum.

No thanks. There are no Monk members at PA! I can tell those I know of who are having problems but I can't do much about the others.

If I'd realised there would be a new link I would have informed them before the event. Oh well.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

FD should set it up for polanimal to automatically redirect to the https port.

That would be good. There are people at PA who have no idea about OzPol nor to look here. It's a shame to lose people when you don't have to.

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Super Nova Gold Member Offline Posts: 3074 Everywhere Gender:	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #57 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:48pm Test Youtube https Youtube http I cannot see youtube videos in Edge or Chrome. It has the area blank. Does anyone else have this problem?
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Reply #58 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:49pm

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:39pm:

Setanta wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:00pm:

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:59pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 7^th, 2021 at 5:51pm:

Perhaps someone could post it at Monk's forum.

No thanks. There are no Monk members at PA! I can tell those I know of who are having problems but I can't do much about the others.

If I'd realised there would be a new link I would have informed them before the event. Oh well.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

FD should set it up for polanimal to automatically redirect to the https port.

That would be good. There are people at PA who have no idea about OzPol nor to look here. It's a shame to lose people when you don't have to.

That https-everywhere plugin will make your browser try HTTPS before going to HTTP on every site.

I'm also seeing "this form is not secure. Auto-fill has been turned off." My guess is there are hard coded HTTP:// in the code. This would not be a problem if every HTTP connection was forced to HTTPS.

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Black Orchid Gold Member Offline Posts: 5813 Gender:	Re: possible site downtime and lost posts Reply #59 - Feb 7^th, 2021 at 6:50pm YouTubes are all blank at PA for me too.
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