I am getting warnings that DU is not a secure site. 5 times in the last hour, 7-15 pm eastern US

[irisblue]

[irisblue]

1. And now a Gateway Time out 504

[Grim Chieftain]

4. Same here!

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Wonder what is going on? We know Trump and his evil minions want to stamp out dissent. Is it impacting DU and other liberal sites?

[berniesandersmittens]

2. I've been getting a site can't be reached msg for about an hr

[dweller]

5. That's new

I’m pretty sure we are being swarmed by bots
Saw the post at top of greatest this morning had 11,000 views 😳


✌🏻

[lostincalifornia]

3. What application is reporting that? Malware, an antivirus program, etc.?

[irisblue]

7. I have an android phone through tmobile so no app

[lostincalifornia]

10. Interesting. I have no idea where that message is coming from. You might try

Google or ChatGPT AI to see what it suggests

[FakeNoose]

6. Everybody is getting on at the same time, so stop it!

Some of you will have to get off of DU until it's not so busy and overloaded.

[yellow dahlia]

8. I am fine, so far.

[GreenWave]

9. Have been here for an hour. no problems.

[PufPuf23]

11. Had several Gateway timeouts then about 20 minutes ago virus detector went off.

Seems OK now.

Been doing other stuff and not sitting at the pc so fingers crossed.

[QueerDuck]

12. Head for the hills! Auntie Em! It's a twister!

🥱

[usonian]

13. In a slowdown, SSL (secure sockets layer) can fail to handshake

and it looks like insecure (unencrypted) traffic.

It don't get much simpler to explain, other than network slowdowns, and error messages created by geeks are almost entirely meaningless.

I had a slow spell today.

[Ping Tung]

14. I'm not a computer nerd but I change vpn servers when it happens and it goes back to normal.

[Jack Valentino]

15. If you have multiple VPN servers, you are DEFINITELY a "computer nerd" !