Google chrome says the forums are insecure or something?

[PikachuNL]

Well, just browsing the suggestions forum, all of the sudden a big red screen talking bout security errors in the ksp forums/bit.ly... Well, not sure what it is though. Excuse my gorgeous photoshop skills.

[technion]

You say the "forum" is insecure, but the message appears to suggest you clicked a link on a forum, taking you somewhere else via bit.ly. If that's correct, you'd need to worry about that site (not the forum).

Edit: Why yes, the post on 21st April 2014, 09:43 has a Bit.ly link. May I suggest "don't click it".

Edited October 25, 2014 by technion

[KasperVld]

What technion said, this has nothing to do with the forums.

[technion]

And now there's quite a blow up over Google listing the whole bit.ly domain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507624

[PikachuNL]

well, basically, I went to page (3) or something, and then this popped up, so its not from an external link...

tl;dr: I clicked on a number for a page.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/44665-Electric-propellers/page3 <-- this was the "unsafe" link

[KasperVld]

Yeah Chrome is probably warning you because a bit.ly link exists on the page, but I will reiterate that this does not mean the forums are unsafe.

[PikachuNL]

Okidoki, guess that's the cause:P Anyway, I thought the forums must be safe lol

[technion]

Yep, "the forums are safe" is the answer, but "safe" is always a relative term. There's nothing at all that stops me making a post that says:

Hey guys, I've written this really awesome mod, download it here: http://getyourviruseshere/freeviruses.exe

There's a link in your own signature and I need to trust you that it's not going to be problematic if I decide to click on it. None of this means the forums have ever been "hacked" or are unsafe, it just means its equally unsafe as every other website.