When will ‘not secure’ retrobike site be made secure?

[Scvintage]

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It’s really interesting to see free internet people concerned about securing internet information. I’m in the USA, the big tech and government are so intertwined and spy on everything... it’s almost a new version of communism never defined. You Europeans better protect yourself.

 

[ibbz]

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It’s really interesting to see free internet people concerned about securing internet information. I’m in the USA, the big tech and government are so intertwined and spy on everything... it’s almost a new version of communism never defined. You Europeans better protect yourself.

I’m aware of all of that - that’s why I’m asking what protections are available. I’m pretty much clueless about what a ‘secure’ site is - it’s that I’ve had people saying in PM that the site is not secure and don’t want to send any sensitive info via PM. That’s all

 

[jonnymcenroe]

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It’s really interesting to see free internet people concerned about securing internet information. I’m in the USA, the big tech and government are so intertwined and spy on everything... it’s almost a new version of communism never defined. You Europeans better protect yourself.

We spy on you...

you spy on us.

you say potato, we say potato.

 

[ibbz]

To be honest - I like the site as it is - I wouldn’t be bothered normally if people hadn’t been wary of the PM system - i understand that all the internet is a mass of spyware anyway - as long as the hosting and servers are secure and the underlying software is too - I’d rather not be clicking cookies and such privacy boxes which to all intent and purposes are there to data harvest anyway

 

[jonnymcenroe]

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Hasn't it been like this for a while, like... years?!

Who's in charge here theze days anyway?! AI overlords?!

 

[mk one]

If anyone has any concerns with anything site related here is a link to the site issues thread and contact details of admin - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=392797

 

[TheAntsPants]

Probably the scariest thing is if retrobike users' bank accounts were hacked because they used the same password as this site and then it was discovered that the hackers used this site to discover the passwords. I'll leave the fallout to your imagination. :facepalm: Purely hypothetical until...

One of many other common mistakes is passwords stored in plain text in the database. Retro bikes and retro sites are cool, but retro security sucks for everyone.

 

[mk one]

Some strange comments.

I doubt very much any passwords are stored in plain text, even if they were to then find that persons bank, their account name and number, then to hack a banks site is certainly imaginative. Banks offer customer support due to security breaches anyway.

To add another point, encrypted passwords are usually fairly easy to decrypt, so it is more about gaining access to the password file than how easy it is to read once there.

 

[ibbz]

The site was down yesterday and overnight for several hours
Who’s in charge here?
Strange that no admin have commented.

 

[mdvineng]

The site was down yesterday and overnight for several hours
Who’s in charge here?
Strange that no admin have commented.

it was but you missed it viewtopic.php?f=8&t=418294