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Visiting Equifax's site to see if you're a victim of the recent data breach can require you to waive lawsuit rights:
By all accounts, the Equifax data breach is, as we reported Thursday, "very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever." The incident affects possibly as many as 143 million people.
But if you want to find out if your data might have been exposed, you waive your right to sue the Atlanta-based company. We're not making this up. The company has now published a website allowing consumers to input their last six digits of their Social Security numbers to find out.
Like most websites, at the bottom of this new site is a section called "Terms of Use." There, in paragraph 4, is bolded, uppercase text of note. It tells site visitors that you agree to waive your right to sue and instead must "resolve all disputes by binding, individual arbitration."
AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE ALL DISPUTES BY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION. PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS BY REQUIRING ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES (EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW) AND A WAIVER OF THE ABILITY TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. ARBITRATION PROVIDES A QUICK AND COST EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR RESOLVING DISPUTES, BUT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT IT ALSO LIMITS YOUR RIGHTS TO DISCOVERY AND APPEAL.
(Score: 2) by Scrutinizer on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:15PM
Firefox refuses to properly use self-signed certificates for HTTPS, even though those are the second most secure type (the arguable best being HTTP Public Key Pinning in conjunction with HTTP Strict Transport Security). Traditional HTTPS certificates issued by a Certificate Authority and trusted by default are utterly broken and completely insecure due to compromised CAs in addition to the USA's National Security Letters [rt.com]; at best they can keep the nobodies across the street or script-kiddies from decoding your traffic, but do nothing to stop the serious bad actors.
Mozilla has announced plans to forcibly tie Firefox to this useless deadweight of the CA-HTTPS system by "depreciating" non-secure HTTP [mozilla.org], in effect declaring that Firefox will cease to become a functional web browser.
If you like what Firefox was and you're still using Windows for some reason, I cannot recommend Pale Moon [palemoon.org] highly enough. Grab it quick from that "non-secure HTTP" site before Firefox forcibly stops you from going there. (Feel free to use the provided cryptographic keys and signatures to verify PM's file integrity, though!)