Readers see a security warning when they try to open my post on FB

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    deniloritsch · Member ·

    Please go to FB, Denice Loritsch and look for my denisartofaday post. It now won’t let a reader read it due to ”security” problems. I wrote to you about this 4/15/14, and hope to hear from you soon.
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    gracejiyoung · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I don’t have the link to your Facebook so I cannot find that post. But, the security problems you are talking about is actually very standard behavior and is a bit misguided (sorry about the scare!). Please note that only you and other registered users of the blog will see it when logged in.

    When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.

    When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.

    To prevent your readers running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http:// and not https://.

    You can read more about this here.

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