I'm not sure this is entirely a Fretboard problem (see below for problems logging into BT for email, which occurred at the same time), but last night at home I tried logging in, in the usual manner, and got the Howdy Stranger message, which I do from time to time. No Biggie (I thought) and clicked in the Login box, whereupon my username and password were immediately populated and I tried to sign in. Wouldn't let me. Just gave me the Howdy Stranger crap.
I'm logged in now from a PC at work (uname -a = "Linux PhilsDebianDesktop 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.89-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux"). I have also logged in to the BT site from the same PC to read my email, but I couldn't do that at home either. I would give it the email address and password and it came back with
An error occurred during a connection to bt.login.yahoo.com. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_OLD_RESPONSE
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
The BT support people were useless. They kept telling me to reset the password. Then they told me to log in with Chrome so I told them that Chrome started getting stupidly slow 2 years ago which is why I went to Firefox and why I no longer have a copy of Chrome.
They've done something to their website (it looks different when you log in); my PC at home has NOT changed, either in "updates" to Windows [which never happens these days] or "updates" to Firefox [which are disabled because the last time it updated itself it stopped working].
Funnily enough, Outlook Express on my home PC can still connect and download email.
So, has anything changed on The Fretboard recently? Or will I be forced to wipe the PC at home and put Linux on it?
"Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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BTW: lol @JAYJO
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Outlook Express was discontinued in Vista: so presumably you were still running XP? If you want a PC that is secure, don't run operating systems that have gone ten years since their last update! That's not a smartarse comment: I'm just not sugar coating an uncomfortable truth.
I know fine well what a MITM attack is. The only sensible fix for a system which is vulnerable to so many attacks---both known and unknown---is to upgrade to something which is actually suitable for connecting to the internet in 2018. Seriously. Thankfully you have now taken that step
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself