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That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.
http://neverssl.com remains for those badly-setup wifi networks.
That was a good extension for a specific time. I stopped using it about 5 years ago when everyone had been pushing HTTPS hard, and Let's Encrypt had become popular. I didn't notice any websites not using HTTPS, so I didn't look back.
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022. Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying th…
Never heard of Spine before your comment, but if I found this in the wild I'd assume it was amateur hour and turn back immediately.
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022. Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying th…
A site being on HTTP isn't necessarily insecure. That warning is inaccurate. It's more about creating censors and gatekeepers in the form of certificate authorities.
(Debian packages are still served over HTTP and are secure with no certificate authority. Try to figure that out!)
Of course, I'm not as incredulous this time around over HTTPS Everywhere.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-...
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022. Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying th…
> Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying that the site is insecure. I can't imagine that's a terribly good first impression, even though, again, Spine is one of the best animation packages out there. A site being on HTTP isn't necessarily insecure. That warning is inaccurate. It's more about creating censors and gatekeepers in the form of certificate authorities. (De…
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022. Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying th…
> Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying that the site is insecure. I can't imagine that's a terribly good first impression, even though, again, Spine is one of the best animation packages out there. A site being on HTTP isn't necessarily insecure. That warning is inaccurate. It's more about creating censors and gatekeepers in the form of certificate authorities. (De…
This isn't scalable to the web.
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> Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying that the site is insecure. I can't imagine that's a terribly good first impression, even though, again, Spine is one of the best animation packages out there. A site being on HTTP isn't necessarily insecure. That warning is inaccurate. It's more about creating censors and gatekeepers in the form of certificate authorities. (De…
Debian ships with its own signing keys to authenticate the packages that it downloads. They are acting as their own CA. This isn't scalable to the web.
vv: whether it's authenticated by TLS or PGP is literally isomorphic except one is centralized to CAs and one is decentralized with web of trust. That's the only difference.
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up on these same forums[0] but I don't think they get why https is an important thing to turn on, even in 2022. Turning on https mode in my browser brings up, as it should, a large error message saying th…
Not only do the forums have HTTPS disabled, but they expect you to download executables to run on your computer over HTTP. And, the kicker: they already have a legit HTTPS cert for the entire site: visiting on HTTPS redirects you to HTTP _facepalm_. Never heard of Spine before your comment, but if I found this in the wild I'd assume it was amateur hour and turn back immediately.
The software itself is some of the smoothest and most stable I've ever used. And when there's an update within the software that, as far as I'm aware, takes place over https too.
But the rest of the site and forums, even when signed in, is http, and I don't really know why.
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Debian ships with its own signing keys to authenticate the packages that it downloads. They are acting as their own CA. This isn't scalable to the web.
Whether or not it's scalable is orthogonal to the question. A browser would call Debian's repos insecure despite the fact that they are secure by other means. vv: whether it's authenticated by TLS or PGP is literally isomorphic except one is centralized to CAs and one is decentralized with web of trust. That's the only difference.
Nothing stops an admin running a repository mirror from choosing to make it serve malicious content, so the downloads need to be authenticated out of band. This is the very definition of insecure.