HTTPS security standard

[GustavKuriga]

So soon Google is going to start marking any website that does not use the https security standard as unsecured on google chrome. I thought I would bring this up because even though the forum is https compliant, the game isn't.

[Gildre]

I push buttons and words appear. That is all I know of the magical machine.

How will this affect me/the general player?

[Anaris]

If done right, not in the slightest.

However, it's out of my hands; server configuration stuff like this is still 100% Tom.

[GustavKuriga]

I push buttons and words appear. That is all I know of the magical machine.

How will this affect me/the general player?

As Anaris said, if done right nothing will change besides seeing https up at the top. The issue comes with NOT doing anything. That makes Battlemaster show up as a dangerous site in google Chrome, and that will turn away new players.

[Wimpie]

@Danaris,

Should we notify Tom about this?

[Andrew]

You're talking about this: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html right?

It's not like they're warning people against it, just making it more obvious that it's a non-secure connection.

[GustavKuriga]

You're talking about this: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html right?

It's not like they're warning people against it, just making it more obvious that it's a non-secure connection.

That's not how the average internet user is going to view it.

[Chenier]

Yea, Firefox kept warning me about my insecure connection, and I'm on PC. I changed all my favorites for https://.

It was disconcerting, even though I presumed no threat was present.