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SoylentNews Goes SSL By Default! (Plus Minor Site Update)

posted by NCommander on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:06AM   
from the huzzah dept.

Earlier tonight, I modified our varnish rules to redirect all traffic to https://soylentnews.org if they came in as plain HTTP. Unfortunately, due to dropping SSLv3 support to prevent POODLE attacks, IE6 clients will no longer be able to reach SoylentNews. If this seriously inconveniences a large number of users, we may go through the trouble of whitelisting IE6 to drop down to HTTP only.

In addition, I applied an experimental update to production to try and clear as many errors as possible from the Apache error logs, in an attempt to continue isolating any remaining bugs and slowdowns. I also ripped out more dead code related to FireHose, Achievements, and Tags. As such, site performance appears to roughly be back to where it should be, and I have yet to see any 500 errors post-upgrade (though I concede that said update has only been up for about 2 hours at this point).

Tor traffic is set to bypass HTTPS due to the fact there is no way to prevent a self-signed certificate warning, and by design, tor both encrypts and authenticates hosts when connecting to them. A few lingering issues with the tor proxy were fixed with most recent code push, and the onion site should be back to functioning normally

P.S. I'm aware that the site is generating warnings due to the fact we use a SHA-1 based certificate. We will be changing out the certificate as soon as reasonably possible.

• Spam goes Spam by Default! Spam goes Spam by Default! (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:21AM (#193105)

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• Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:23AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:23AM (#193106)

  Spam! Spam! Glorious Spam!

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  • Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:25AM (#193108)

    Spam! Heavenly Spam! Spam!

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    • Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:21AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:21AM (#193209) Journal

      Bloody Vikings!

      But I do have to say, in regards to the naming, rehash could be strangely appropriate, since real hash is some form of chopped meat (not necessarily nicely spiced like Spam!), and SoylentNews is people, just like its namesake.

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      • Re:Spam goes Spam by Default! (Score: 1) by Absolutely.Geek on Monday June 08 2015, @09:55PM

        by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Monday June 08 2015, @09:55PM (#193830)

        In my country "real" hash is illegal and has nothing to do with animal products you insensitive clod.

        --
        Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.

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