This morning when I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website I received a disturbing message. It said I needed to be careful because my “Connection was not Private”.
“Attackers might be trying to steal my information from data.BLS.gov.”
Well, that doesn’t sound good. So since that was inside my Chrome browser I figured I should try a different browser to see if it was my problem.
So I tried Firefox and got this:
OK so maybe it’s not hackers just somebody screwed up at the BLS.
Actually, I could get to the home page https://www.bls.gov/ .
I just couldn’t get to any data pages like these:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU04000000
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CEU0000000001
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