I was just reading threads, and this came up, cut and pasted from a full screen warning:
So, mods, maybe it is time to configure your website properly? Is my information being stolen while I type this?
Gee, my security software doesn’t pick that up—could you be getting malware?
In what way do you consider mods responsible for fixing such things ?
Do you ask cops to build traffic bridges ?
That’s a relatively new “feature” of Firefox and Chrome. They are basically bitching because we have a login box and we don’t use https for added security. We have never used https here and it’s never really been a problem, so it’s not anything you need to be too concerned about.
Ironically, I got the same warning from Google the other day (Google being the guys who made Chrome and as I recall were the ones who first implemented this “feature”).
You can make the same complaint to Google if you’d like. 
That particular warning should only occur if you tried to access the site via a URL starting with “https.” Remove the s in the URL to see the site properly.
For some reason, the Dope seems to use HTTPS links on Google, without actually having a properly functioning HTTPS server. I’m hoping the experimental upgrade (that caused some Charter Membership upgrades to fail) will include getting HTTPS working. Google prefers sites with HTTPS support, and gives them higher rankings, which is good for us all.
I’ve seen it on Firefox on http connections, not https. I don’t use Chrome very often so I don’t know if it has the same issue.
For what it’s worth, I sent an e-mail to our admins asking them to look into this. It’s becoming more of an issue with newer browsers. We’ll see what happens.
That’s a pretty odd claim. How would you know if people using the site had their information compromised?
I know of similar warnings, but not the one that says it won’t connect to the website at all. That makes no sense on HTTP, since it’s supposed to be insecure. I just pulled up Firefox’s latest Nightly, and I only get that warning if I try an HTTPS URL.
The one I’ve seen on HTTP is just when you try to log in. It warns you that the connection is insecure. Specifically it says “This connection is not secure. Logins here could be compromised. Learn More”