What's the issue? This is a "strong and stable" Government, that's what they've told us. Not once have they said they were "strong, stable, secure, up-to-date, modern, of the people, forward thinking, human".
Your connection is not Brexit... we mean private: UK Tory party lets security cert expire
Another day, another embarrassing gaffe for the Tories. This time it seems someone forgot to renew the UK Conservative Party's website's security certificate. "Your connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.conservatives.com (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards)," web …
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Monday 8th January 2018 12:07 GMT raving angry loony
Just remember, a truck that's just gone over a cliff is also "strong and stable". Maybe not very aerodynamic, or likely to survive the sudden stop at the end, but it's definitely "strong and stable"...
That said, meh, it's only a website. It's not like the Tory faithful understand what those are anyway. Telegrams and pigeons, isn't it?
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Tuesday 9th January 2018 19:03 GMT fajensen
Re: Err, no
... but it's certainly not stable.
The *trajectory* towards a strong and perhaps even colourful impact on those rocks at the bottom of the cliff is stable - which is pretty much what the May-bot actuator and communications unit actually means (the personality matrix is obviously stored in a secure facility that used to be targeting Moscow and has now been repurposed).
Since "it has been decided" to smash the country onto the rocks and grab whatever spills out, like the worlds biggest piñata party, ballistic guidance is still the best system for the job: It can't be interfered with, it cant be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with - and it will not stop, Ever, until millions are Dead on the NHS or Impoverished!
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Monday 8th January 2018 14:55 GMT handleoclast
Re: truck metaphor
@raving angry loony
When you introduced your truck metaphor, it reminded me more of something. The strength and stability of the Tory party is illusory, much as the strength of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxVQ7ZEG1RU>this truck</a> is. I think this metaphor is better than yours: the wilful ignorance of reality, the inevitable crash, etc.
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Monday 8th January 2018 13:43 GMT John Lilburne
Who cares? I got a panicy phone call from my webhost last month:
"Your website is compromised".
What are you talking about?
"Mumble, mumble, mumble."
Are you referring to lack of SSL cert?
"Yes, could be hacked, mumble, mumble, lose user log ins, mumble, mumble"
I don't fucking care, user logins are turned off, the site isn't selling anything. I'm the only one that has a login account. Now come back when there is actually a problem and not because you want to sell me some buggy SSL shite that I don't need.
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Monday 8th January 2018 13:50 GMT SVV
Re: "Your connection is not private."
"Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.conservatives.com (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards)."
My god,they're not keeping all the information they've snooped from us on their party website are they?
Maybe the browser makers can create new 'Brexit browsers' for British people. A http connection will display a warning page with "conservatives WILL be stealing all your information (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards)". And a https connection will be confirmed by a BLUE padlock in the address bar, just like what we used to have before we joined the internet and had to have OUR rules dictated to us by FOREIGNERS. Not that you'll be able to conduct any business that way, as of course encryption could be used by criminals, so anybody using it must be one, therefore it must be banned, and in no way is this embarassing for the tories as it doesn't in any way show up their cluelessness and stupidity when it comes to all tech related policy matters.....
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Monday 8th January 2018 15:14 GMT Rich 11
Re: "Your connection is not private."
And a https connection will be confirmed by a BLUE padlock in the address bar, just like what we used to have before we joined the internet and had to have OUR rules dictated to us by FOREIGNERS.
We can't have our electricity running through those foreign blue, brown and green and yellow wires either. Red and black was good enough for my dad and it's good enough for me. We must make a stand and take back control of the wires by seizing the opportunity in both hands. Who is with me? Vive la resistance!
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Monday 8th January 2018 12:09 GMT Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble?
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Monday 8th January 2018 14:18 GMT macjules
Re: Leading by example?
There was a BREXSSL vote taken. In the vote 52% of all Tories voted to no longer use SSL certification. The "HTTPStayers" who lost the vote are taking the case for HTTPS to the High Court and are demanding that self-certification signing requests should never have been permitted.
Nigel Farage has now joined the board of Symantec, having promised to work within the system to prevent the use of HTTPS ever again.
Boris Johnson was not available for comment.
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Monday 8th January 2018 13:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: El Reg is more influential than you would think
Yes, it verifies now.
$ openssl s_client -connect www.conservatives.com:443 -servername www.conservatives.com
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Verify return code: 0 (ok)
Decode the certificate (openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -text) and you see:
Validity
Not Before: Jan 8 00:00:00 2018 GMT
Not After : Mar 11 23:59:59 2019 GMT
At least it uses SHA256.
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Monday 8th January 2018 13:05 GMT Doctor Syntax
"Funnily enough, Rudd is one of the Cabinet members rumoured to be safe in her role."
Nothing funny about it in either sense. The HO would fight tooth and nail to keep her. She doesn't understand when she's talking bollocks so she sounds convinced and convincing if you don't know better. Plus she's following the exact line that the main Home Sec in Downing St wants her to follow.
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Monday 8th January 2018 13:41 GMT fajensen
Isn't that kinda the same thing?
See, first "They" slurp all of our data "for the children & freedom" then they share it with "our allies" like the #1 and #2 in terrorist atrocities, USA, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and finally someone leaves the lot on a laptop that will invariably get nicked during a pub-crawl?
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Monday 8th January 2018 16:07 GMT MJI
Re: What else is blocked?
Good.
I don't trust any of the party sites
I don't want Theresa May spouting off a cliche ridden speech. Nor Jeremy Corbyn trying to be a superstar, nor Farage trying to emulate a war time leader.
I find that for politcal information I now HAVE to rely on the TV broadcasters as the printed press is mainly unusable now.
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Monday 8th January 2018 15:58 GMT MJI
Some thoughts
You see all the rubbish headlines and total crap being spewed by many papers.
You think what rubbish.
Then you find people quoting it, believing it, and agreeing with it.
And the same people are actually allowed to vote.
I find the EU exit supporting gutter press the worst. Nasty vindictive and very unpleasant.
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Monday 8th January 2018 16:45 GMT Aodhhan
blah blah who cares?
Let me know when your government starts using private servers, deletes e-communications, has your top law enforcement agency look the other way, makes underhanded deals with your top investigation personnel, allows national security leaks from servers, convinces half of parliament that security is secondary and finds plenty of people negligent in all of these acts but believes the people are not smart enough to catch on or care. Finally, think Hillary Clintion is a goddess in training.
...then you have a story.
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Monday 8th January 2018 18:17 GMT Ken Hagan
Re: blah blah who cares?
"convinces half of parliament that security is secondary"
I think most of us would be surprised and delighted to discover that many in Parliament who cared even that much. (To consider just one example: if you or any of your staff are surfing porn sites on a work computer, security is not even in your vocabulary.)
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