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Back in March I asked you guys if I should put SSL on my mcgrewbooks.com site, since it appeared that it would raise my hosting cost by $25 a year, and there was no technical reason to have it; there is no personal information collected whatever.
I gave a lot of thought to the comments for months, and yesterday decided to go ahead and spend the money; I just put three grand on my mortgage principal. So I went to R4L’s web site to find where I could add SSL. I couldn’t find it.
However, their help is actually a Canadian who helps through text chat, who informed me that paid hosting came with SSL, I simply had to turn it on.
Well, it wasn’t that simple, as they’re upgrading their tools and I ran across a couple of 404s. But I finally found the correct widget to click, so the unnecessary lock is no longer broken.
My other site still has a broken lock, but it’s a “free” site. Registration there is $15, but you get ten megabytes of hosting. Those are the kind of site that an extra $25 buys SSL, and you might as well pay for hosting. It isn’t much more, and it isn’t hard to fill ten megs. Almost all of the images at mcgrew.info are either on Wikipedia (which reminds me, I should donate again) or mcgrewbooks.
I wish I would have known that five years ago! But I’m still more than happy with R4L.
Since R4L is Canadian, whose internet laws apply? America’s? Canada’s? Both? Neither?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday October 14 2021, @06:20PM (3 children)
I don't disagree with your argument.
However I find that view interesting when about fifteen to twenty years ago everything was in clear text on the internet and everyone was clamoring for everything to be encrypted. The rush for encryption everywhere increased in 2013 with the Snowden revelations.
I kind of like the fact that encryption is universal. An attacker, even a sophisticated one, must jump through some hoops in order to snoop.
With TLS able to "wrap" ordinary TCP connections, many protocols are now encrypted. We need an encrypted version of the "finger" protocol.
Why does the government need to know what news articles I read, what magazines I read, etc.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Thursday October 14 2021, @10:44PM (1 child)
Yes, completely agree on all points. What I don't like, and I don't have a simple solution, is apps- foreground or background- communicating with someone somewhere and it's all encrypted. Smsniff, etc., can't reveal what's going on.
Cynical me thinks the govt. has all of us under surveillance all the time anyway. But that said, they had to pay the Israelis to crack that iPhone. Or was that a smokescreen...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @10:06PM
Maybe you'd like something like squid. You can control what gets checked and what doesn't that way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @04:34PM
Obviously, they need to be sure you're not a domestic terrorist plotting to overthrow our Democratically Elected™ government. Why do you hate our freedom DannyB?! What are you hiding?!