agreed - using HTTP instead of HTTPS is a great way to encourage that activity, and since I love having my head in the sand like an ostrich I encourage us to not encrypt the donation links to the most secure operating system available to the public. That way we can't donate securely to the foundation we support - the sand is great from down here
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:32 AM, Hess THR <hessnovth...@mail.com> wrote: > troll on > > hey, yeah, you are absolutely right! > > no one would ever modify (since plain http) the example.: > > http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html > > page, where are the PayPal donation links, bitcoin donation links are, > without anybody noticing! > > Why would someone do something like this? we live in a perfect world > without bad people! yay pink ponies! > > troll off > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 at 12:23 PM > > From: "Ian Sutton" <i...@openbsd.org> > > To: "Hess THR" <hessnovth...@mail.com> > > Cc: "misc@OpenBSD.org" <misc@openbsd.org> > > Subject: Re: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS > > > > Hi, > > > > There is no need. There is nothing secret on those web servers, there > > is no logical reason to encrypt it. This issue has been discussed to > > death. Please check archives. > > > > Ian > > > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Hess THR <hessnovth...@mail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > because HTTPS increases the authenticity, integrity, privacy: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS > > > > > > going to apache/iis/nginx/linux will not increase "security". since > they have very buggy code. > > > > > > but for HTTPS, luckily, OpenBSD has LibreSSL. Or are we not trusting > the code in the base? > > > > > > > > >> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 at 12:11 PM > > >> From: "Vivek Vinod" <vi...@icanconnect.com> > > >> To: "Hess THR" <hessnovth...@mail.com> > > >> Subject: Re: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS > > >> > > >> 1) Why do you want https support? > > >> 2) Most websites use IIS, Apache or Nginx. Maybe you should suggest > we shift to IIS as well? Wait, I guess more people use Linux, so we should > stop using OpenBSD all together. > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: <owner-m...@openbsd.org> on behalf of Hess THR < > hessnovth...@mail.com> > > >> Date: Friday, 15 December 2017 at 4:20 PM > > >> To: <misc@openbsd.org>, <direct...@openbsdfoundation.org> > > >> Subject: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS > > >> > > >> Hello, Just noticed that the: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/ > doesn't > > >> supports HTTPS, while in 2017 Dec, ~70% of the websites does: > > >> https://letsencrypt.org/stats/#percent-pageloads Can we have > HTTPS for > > >> the OpenBSD Foundation? Which Official OpenBSD related domain > hasn't got > > >> HTTPS yet? I whish you happy holidays and again, Thanks for all > the work! > > >> BTW, wow: > > >> https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_ > donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/dr6q6tj/?context=3 > > >> > > > > > > >
