Posted on 11/03/2018 1:56:24 PM PDT by BlueLancer
I use a bookmark on Firefox, or like now, just come up as a starting website. Never seen any warnings.
That might explain it.
For a few months now, when going to FreeRepublic, I use my old handy-dandy Internet Explorer.
I have Spectrum too, since they took over Time Warner.
Ah, claim you are in Houston, but I bet it fools no one. What around the sites, pages, and programs you are using. I bet you'll see things that are relevant to where you are, to what you search for, etc.
The impersonation will collect your login username and password if you enter it. They have a fake login screen that looks just like freerepublic.com.
https will fail validation and warn the browser - which should give you some kind of warning message. The exact message depends on the browser. This is not some Google Chrome conspiracy.
If you get a warning message, do not login to Freerepublic else your credentials will be harvested. Exit the browser and try again a few minutes later. Or reboot your system. That will clear your local DNS cache.
DNS poisoning only lasts for a few minutes, so you won't get the same results every time. It is very specific to the router and the ISP that you are using.
This^ they warn you if you try connecting to a site that doesn’t use TLS or at least SSL for their connection. This is not political stunt.
Your computer is biased.
Chrome is Google. Enemy of freedom.
Safari is Apple. Enemy of freedom.
Firefox is tolerable.
Pale Moon is based on Firefox code, but has a more freedom oriented culture.
Brave is the safest, most freedom oriented, having been founded by Brendon Eich, who was kicked out as CEO of Mozilla for having the effrontery to support traditonal marriage.
A post of possible security interest.
google garbage.
Quit using Chrome/FB about a year ago. Exclusively DuckDuckGo these days, plus Avast (which I’ve been with for years).
Interesting. Those scams have been going around a lot lately. The source of the passwords seemed to be an old myspace or Adobe hack. Are you sure the password was used exclusively here?
Free Republic is under constant attack. I’m amazed the people who run this site have managed to keep it up. As for Google, well of course those leftscum are trying to block access to Free Republic. Not the first time. The attacks sometimes work for a little while, but Free Republic endures.
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Your employer -— if you are surfing at work -— might use a service which attempts to identify (apolitical) web site security issues.
I doubt this is a political thing.
The problem with that page is an image (in post 774) that loads from a “qanonposts.com” domain. See this link:
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fqanonposts.com%2Fimages%2F5c15e42b4bed2355fe8917d50ddb778d6d8a002d1d4590b1e7918ceef3e97531.jpg
In firefox the offending image just doesn’t load, but maybe other browsers block the FR page.
Note that the warning is that the site has been reported as deceptive. Libs reporting sites they don’t like will also get them onto that list.
Sorry, but that is ridiculous.
Passwords harvested exist in large databases. They typically were harvested from using ‘free wifi’ sites by man-in-the-middle exploits, especially back in the early days.
Continue using those passwords without fear on sites with no monetary issue. That email wants only to scare you into doing something stupid like clicking on a link.
Just because they have a password associated with your email when you logged into yahoo does not mean that they can use it to break into your machine, duh!
I’m a retired ISP owner, started in the early 90s. But I stay up on what matters. Don’t respond to any email that you did not originate.
Thanks ... I’m using Chrome.
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That explains it. Censorship at every turn with google. By the way, when using Safari I get a red boxed warning “Deceptive Website Warning” when I go to http://qanonposts.com
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