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Why is this site not secure?


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#1 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 12 2019 - 12:52 AM

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i eat cars for breakfast everynight


#2 Offline FSTP - Posted September 12 2019 - 1:16 AM

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Because at this point the admin doesn't feel the benifits of making the site secure outweight the hassle and labour required to make it secure. Besides its not like you're doing your banking on here. 

 

Just be sure you're using a unique password, which you should be for all your accoundts anyways.


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#3 Offline Reacker - Posted September 12 2019 - 6:07 AM

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Because our illustrious site owner and admin dspdrew,  Actual IRL IT Professional, does not consider it to be important.


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#4 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 12 2019 - 6:09 AM

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Earlier I connected to a restaurant's internet and they accused this site will steal my info

i eat cars for breakfast everynight


#5 Offline Pumpkin_Loves_Ants - Posted September 12 2019 - 6:20 AM

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Like what FSTP said what information does this site have to steal? Just don’t use a password that you use on a more important site and you should be fine. The restaurant is just looking out for you but most likely can’t tell the difference between a site that wants to steal your info and a site that isn’t “secure.”
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#6 Offline Silq - Posted September 12 2019 - 7:46 AM

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Am I seeing that correctly, Reacker has negative reputation points? -2,147,483,172 reputation points

 

How is that possible?


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#7 Offline FSTP - Posted September 12 2019 - 7:56 AM

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Am I seeing that correctly, Reacker has negative reputation points? -2,147,483,172 reputation points

 

How is that possible?

 

 

Indeed, for he is a most disreputable neerdowell.


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#8 Offline Martialis - Posted September 12 2019 - 8:10 AM

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Am I seeing that correctly, Reacker has negative reputation points?

-2,147,483,172 reputation points



How is that possible?

He’s received so many likes that an overflow error happened

Edited by Martialis, September 12 2019 - 8:11 AM.

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#9 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 12 2019 - 8:12 AM

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Am I seeing that correctly, Reacker has negative reputation points?

-2,147,483,172 reputation points



How is that possible?

He’s received so many likes that an overflow error happened

 

No I agree with with FSTP, he's a disreputable neerdowell.


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#10 Offline Barristan - Posted October 3 2019 - 12:23 AM

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Actually it isn't any real work to add a SSL certificate. It is basically just installing a package (certbot) and typing in a single command on a Linux server. It is also free (letsencrypt).

 

Beside that it helps protecting user's data it also allows you to use http/2 which will boost website performance and google will rank your website better if you use ssl.


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#11 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 4 2019 - 7:31 PM

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I will be adding a certificate as soon as I have the time.


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#12 Offline Reacker - Posted October 5 2019 - 6:19 PM

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I will be adding a certificate as soon as I have the time.

Circa 2029



#13 Offline Martialis - Posted October 6 2019 - 10:08 AM

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I will be adding a certificate as soon as I have the time.

Circa 2029

 

 

Isn't that a little soon? Californian commutes take a while, remember.


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#14 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 15 2019 - 7:29 AM

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The site is secure now. Any links or bookmarks should automatically redirect to https as well. Let me know if you see any problems after the change.


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