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Let’s Encrypt chain of trust changes will affect a small number of users on Stack Exchange

tl;dr: As early as September 9th, some users accessing the site from old Android devices (running Android 7.0 and earlier) may see SSL warnings in their browser regarding an invalid certificate when ...
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Opt-out of being logged-in without SSL [closed]

For me at least, partial SSL support with mixed content has been working for a long time. I'm aware that the SSL rollout is a slow process, but whenever I'm connected without an ‘s’ after the ‘http’, ...
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Picture are not shown in all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]

This is a screen shoot of SE I took from here. That's mine. But mine or others are the same, not working, no image is shown. That's makes it difficult for me to understand a topic. I have tried with ...
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Is Stack Overflow's (SSL) log-in process optimal from a UX perspective? [duplicate]

Does Stack Overflow use SSL when transmitting passwords during the log-in process? This question comes up when you log-on, because there is no green lock in the browser when logging in. I do use the ...
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User flair image should be served over SSL as well

Unfortunately, the current flair image is only served over plain HTTP. Naturally, if you embed it directly on a page served over SSL, you will get mixed content warning from your browser. Please ...
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Bad SSL/TLS at Stack Exchange: Cloudflares SSL certificates and sometimes no HTTPS at all [duplicate]

Cloudflare Cloudflare has the options Universal/Flexible SSL, which basically allow websites to serve their website over HTTPS by using a certificate from Cloudflare. Besides the fact that ...
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Why hadn't SE had HTTPS for a long time?

I'm novice in security, but after reading the post Network-wide HTTPS: It's time I'm confused. As in the answer of Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites, having an SSL certificate is not ...
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Time to upgrade SSL Cert(s) on *stackexchange.com

When browsing any StackExchange site, my Firefox console displays this warning: This site makes use of a SHA-1 Certificate; it's recommended you use certificates with signature algorithms that use ...
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Generated code does not respect correct protocol (eg. HTTPS) [duplicate]

Browsing StackOverflow, I've found out, that not all resources are loaded over HTTPS (if using that protocol) Looking into code, I've found out, it's related to Imgur addresses: view-source:https:/...
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Please support HTTPS by default [duplicate]

Please redirect to an HTTPS connection by default on stackoverflow.com To illustrate the problem, please see the screenshot below where a man-in-the-middle attack is being used to forge responses ...
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Connection downgraded to http after authenticating with SSL, auth broken with HTTP Everywhere [duplicate]

I opened https://meta.stackoverflow.com/, authenticated using Google OpenID, and was returned to https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ When using HTTPS Everywhere, authentication fails because of this: ...
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SSL certificate OCSP verification issue on cdn.sstatic.net, SO's JS/CSS not loading

Since the beginning of July I have intermittent trouble loading SO because I randomly can't verify the CDN's SSL certificate through OCSP. Network connectivity is otherwise good (traceroute & ping ...
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Is something wrong with the stack exchange root certificate? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites I usually visit Stackoverflow through https. Since a few days, Safari will warn me that it can't verify the identity of the ...