Is it possible that Tom's Hardware ACCOUNT UPDAT is not safe?

[confusednall]

FireFox is giving me the grey lock with the red crossout in the upper right section of the Account EDIT page. Here is a screen shot using GYAZO:

https://gyazo.com/a342a7b85273e044093d80c2f3b71b09?token=ac0b09829132b0ff3e2156b7c9bf83dc

I need to change my email only, because I didn't add a extra digit at the end. Help?

Theresa Anne

 

[Saga Lout]

If you haven't clicked on Submit, surely you could add the last digit in the confirmed address or am I missng the point?

I'll invite one of the professional staff to join this thread.

 

[13thmonkey]

it's just not HTTPS: is what it's suggesting if i'm reading that right, and no we aren't yet https enabled, but we also don't ask for or store anything that interesting, i.e. no financial transactions etc.

 

[Graybush]

The grey/red lock you're seeing is an icon indicating that the site you're entering information on is not secured. Yes, the teams are aware that the forums are not on HTTPS and they are working towards securing the forums.

 

[confusednall]

If you haven't clicked on Submit, surely you could add the last digit in the confirmed address or am I missng the point?

I'll invite one of the professional staff to join this thread.

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I had setup my account in 2017, entered a query about moving away from Windows to Linux for some general advise with the resources I had. When I submitted I realized the email addy was wrong, so went in to add the "2" to the end, but no matter what I tried I could not It might be because of FireFox's security features, but it still seems quite odd that something this basic isn't on https, since it was concerning my password and email.

We're not all virus ninjas guys, so https addys are what I personally consider to be a bare bones must have for the security of account info. I'd hope the Tom's Hardware team would agree? Just food for thought

 

[13thmonkey]

The question regarding risk is what is there beyond the password and email address, and the answer is nothing 'critical' if we had shopping then it would be vital, but we hold nothing from you that is a security risk (unless you are reusing passwords etc.). However my understanding is that we are working towards it.

 

[confusednall]

so how do i correct my account's email correction? Can one of the dev's do that manually for me? If I'm being too much of a pest or asking too much I'm sorry.

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[Saga Lout]

I removed your address to prevent you being Spammed day and night and before the address is sold to ever more Spammers.

I'll ask Viddyvane back into this thread but they may not see the message until Monday.

 

[Graybush]

so how do i correct my account's email correction? Can one of the dev's do that manually for me? If I'm being too much of a pest or asking too much I'm sorry.

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If you can send an email to community@tomshardware.com, I can have a ticket filed and a member of the help team can fix that. Unfortunately we're experiencing a technical issue that stops users from updating their email addresses. We're doing our best working with the single sign-on provider in order to resolve the issue.