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firefox won't secure encryption on newegg check out then to paypal

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Shane:
The only point of SSL is to simply encrypt the data going back and fourth, and the question is why do you need that?

You need it in case you have someone on your network that scan scan the packets going across, and packets not in SSL are just plain text. So a person could see the info, such as long in info, bank account, stuff like that.

But thats is IF someone is scanning your network, which most home networks you are not, or if you have an infection on your system meant to try and sniff and get that data. Otherwise when you are using a public internet, say at a coffee shop or airport you would want ssl because you have no clue who else is on the network and scanning it.

Chances are that the pages you get the error on are most likly just images while the important info is on the SSL. But thats what worries people, they dont know which part isnt on the SSL, and so it makes them nervous. So any SSL page should have everything in SSL to avoid this. Lots of these pages are drawn as they load, they load their images, scripts, css and html from a database or from other connections, so it is easy to miss one and have the whole page report as not encrypted.

Firefox is better at reporting if a page is not fully encrypted I think, vs IE at least.

One way you could try to find what is causing the error is to install firebug in firefox. You can then inspect the page really well, including looking up the connections it is making. You can find any that are http:// instead of https:// and if you can find which one is causing it, then maybe you could get them to listen.

On a side note, there are also some very bad add ons that I have seen. From toolbars or add ons from crap program that install add ons in firefox, ie and chrome that pretty much hijack your browser, cause pop ups AND inject code into the pages that are loading to show their own ads to make money. This of course would also cause that error. So keep that in mind as well.

Shane

scarsxp:
Wow, thank you for the incredible insight. It probably would have been safe anyways. But I fixed the problem. Not on newegg. I'll check that out later. But another online store I was dealing with.

I inspected the element with a different web browser and Opera revealed what image that was insecure from http that should be https. Apparently it was there logo.

So I used firefox and told it to block all images from the website. And what do you know, now it says the paypal is secure at login. So now I know that everything is encrypted.

About the addons to firefox, I get paranoid as well about them. I just try to get them from mozilla firefox's website, because they do integrity checks before they release it on their website. And I don't think I can scan an addon with my own anti virus.

Shane:

--- Quote ---So I used firefox and told it to block all images from the website. And what do you know, now it says the paypal is secure at login. So now I know that everything is encrypted.
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Ah, good it is what I thought it was :-)

Glad I could be of some help. need anything else you know where to ask :wink:

Shane

scarsxp:

--- Quote from: Shane on August 06, 2014, 06:59:17 pm ---
--- Quote ---So I used firefox and told it to block all images from the website. And what do you know, now it says the paypal is secure at login. So now I know that everything is encrypted.
--- End quote ---

Ah, good it is what I thought it was :-)

Glad I could be of some help. need anything else you know where to ask :wink:

Shane

--- End quote ---

lol, yes, you are the first guy I think of when I need to ask for help. If I can't solve the problem myself, usually.

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