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Old 08-23-2016, 11:08 PM   #1
Pedroski
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Firefox insecure connection message


Lately I keep getting this kind of message (Please see screenshot):

Your connection is not secure

I was only looking up something on bing.com. google doesn't work in China without vpn. Yahoo works though.

Has Firefox gone crazy, or is there really a problem with bing.com??
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Last edited by Pedroski; 08-23-2016 at 11:13 PM.
 
Old 08-24-2016, 12:51 AM   #2
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Without any further information this does look Bing is being proxied, breaking HTTPS. This can happen on corporate networks which don't allow https to bypass proxies but could, equally, be the government trying to use a man in the middle attack as they did for Apple and Google services.
 
Old 08-24-2016, 06:14 PM   #3
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Must be the Chinese Govt. messing around again! They are very control freakish.
 
  


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