Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread cl
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 03:56:25PM -0400, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: > In fact, Google has been on a broad push to get rid of http since early > 2018: > https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/milestone-chrome-security-marking-ht > tp-not-secure/ >

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread cl
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 08:47:50PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 19:42, Patrick James > wrote: > > > About two months ago, there was a major ice storm in Austin, and the area > > was completely unprepared for such a storm. A friend of mine was without > > power for about

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread paul
1:47 PM Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning I noticed from the Google website - actually Google, not what someone says they think about Google. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10218333?hl=en-GB#not_enough_da ta "The Page Experience

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 19:42, Patrick James wrote: > About two months ago, there was a major ice storm in Austin, and the area > was completely unprepared for such a storm. A friend of mine was without > power for about 12 days. He has two small children, and he has good local > resources, which

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Patrick James
About two months ago, there was a major ice storm in Austin, and the area was completely unprepared for such a storm. A friend of mine was without power for about 12 days. He has two small children, and he has good local resources, which were also impacted by the ice storm, and it was not easy

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Tom Weichmann
I'm confused, is someone arguing against using HTTPS on gnucash.org? Is there some cost that is trying to be avoided or something like that? I use HTTPS on my little personal website because why have any data on the internet that isn't encrypted. I can't think of a downside On Thu, Mar 30,

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Patrick James
I keep trying to figure out what to do with all my "likes" on various social media sites, and as of today, no one can really explain why I want/desire/need more "likes," or similar. > On 03/30/2023 11:29 AM Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > But that still means if you want to do well in Google,

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 19:03, Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > "Here are the criteria for a URL to rate as good in page experience > status > > in Google Search:: > > > > - *Failed:* The URL is served using HTTP, not HTTPS. > > > > So it seems to me that the

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
"Here are the criteria for a URL to rate as good in page experience status in Google Search:: - *Failed:* The URL is served using HTTP, not HTTPS. So it seems to me that the argument that a website does not collect personal information, so does not need HTTPS, is flawed. You can argue the

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I noticed from the Google website - actually Google, not what someone says they think about Google. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10218333?hl=en-GB#not_enough_data "The Page Experience report provides a summary of the user experience of visitors to your site. Google evaluates page

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Simon Roberts
I agree--the reality of any risk is small enough to normal people to be irrelevant, but the damage to credibility among those who might want to use GNC but are not familiar with the significance of public key asymmetric cryptography, is not at all trivial. Meanwhile, thank you Dr. Kirbly, your

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 15:22, wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16:09AM +, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > > because its site certificate

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread cl
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16:09AM +, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > because its site certificate expired recently. > How does that make the site

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 9:30 AM, Simon Roberts wrote: On this, I would disagree. The certificate verifies that the *connection* has not been usurped by a "man in the middle" attack, and thereby that the target site is the one you believe it to be. The certificate says absolutely nothing about the quality

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 11:16, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > because its site certificate expired recently. > > I can get through by overriding the

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 7:16 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Point them to https://code.gnucash.org/website/ The maintainer of www.gnucash.org has been having issues since a major power outage in February and has been fighting with his system ever since. -derek On Fri, March 24, 2023 7:16 am, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to

[GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I don’t think I should be advising others to do so.