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Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

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Re: Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

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post #59

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How do you know your users are seeing "a static site with no login and mostly PDFs"? Security is a state of mind, indeed.

I know because I make the site and use it too

I know, but now anyone can:

* Inject a cryptocurrency miner JavaScript into your page during the transmission of your static HTML page to your clients, without you or your users knowing it [1]

* Injecting explicit, illegal image material that would get your clients immediately in legal trouble for possession of such material, without you knowing

* Injecting a JS snippet that, instead of your site's contents, shows a fake antivirus page, telling the clients that your site is malicious and that a threat was eliminated by Fake Antivirus 10.0 and that they should immediately call Microsoft Support (Phone number in Bangladesh) for further "assistance". There they're told they need to get a full cleaning of the hard drive for only 99$ and are asked for their CC number

The point is: If you don't have end-to-end-encryption, you can never be sure what your users see. They might see your site - or some slightly modified version of your site, with a login box, phishing passwords from your users, abusing their trust in your brand.

A MITM has nothing to do with someone gaining access to your server. It's someone gaining access to infrastructure - a vulnerable public wifi, for instance.

[1] https://www.hacking.reviews/2018/01/coffeeminer-collaborativ...

Re: Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

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post #39

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https://www.netlify.com/

When I go to https://www.netlify.com/pricing in Firefox I get this error: Corrupted Content Error The site at https://www.netlify.com/pricing has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired. Never seen this error before. Seems okay in Chrome and IE, so not sure what's going on in Firefox.

Data point: For me it's fine in Firefox Nightly from The Netherlands.

Re: Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

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post #59

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I know because I make the site and use it too

I know, but now anyone can: * Inject a cryptocurrency miner JavaScript into your page during the transmission of your static HTML page to your clients, without you or your users knowing it [1] * Injecting explicit, illegal image material that would get your clients immediately in legal trouble for possession of such material, without you knowing * Injecting a JS snippet that, instead of your site's contents, shows a…

Fair enough. I will enable https on cloudflare.

Re: Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.netlify.com/

When I go to https://www.netlify.com/pricing in Firefox I get this error: Corrupted Content Error The site at https://www.netlify.com/pricing has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired. Never seen this error before. Seems okay in Chrome and IE, so not sure what's going on in Firefox.

I get this quite a lot in Firefox, especially on O365. It's usually fixed by doing a hard-refresg (ctrl-Shift R or something).
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