your connection is not secure

So I'm trying to fix a problem for a family member. And I'm not making any headway. While using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox a "your connection is not secure" or "your connection is not private" warning comes up. On chrome there is an i in a circle instead of a gold lock (firefox was installed after this problem and still encounters the problem). How Do I fix this? The following are just screen shots of the icon and message that I uploaded to imgur. Feel free to check them out if needed, but I don't believe they give much more Information than I provided.


http://imgur.com/a/gIR7B

Posted on Aug 3, 2016 12:18 PM

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Posted on Aug 3, 2016 12:55 PM

What time is it?

Is your time correct within five minutes? you cannot make a secure connection without pretty close time.

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Aug 3, 2016 6:28 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Which version of MacOS is important because all the browsers available for the oldest viable versions of MacOS are in the process of being rejected by individual Web sites (not by the web in general) due to inadequate encryption. What was perfectly fine is now seen to have too many security holes to be viable.


So it is possible there is Nothing wrong with your Mac, or your browsers. The problem may be that the standards are being tightened as we speak, and by this fall, most sites will warn you, or reject your connection completely due to 'browser encryption not good enough'.

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