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Re: FIRST Choice Sunday redux

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
Are you expecting that someone will spoof or MITM first choice in the next 3 hours? Otherwise, I'm not sure what the objection is to a self signed certificate. The data is still encrypted.

I'm not seeing a self-signed certificate anyway. Back to the AlphaSSL certificate it was using yesterday.
It's bad security practice, and calls into question how well the data is safeguarded. I'm okay with using self-signed for my personal projects where I'm just encrypting a stream; I expect better from a commercial site with real use and real consequences for a data breach.

Looks like it doesn't matter anyway. I applaud AndyMark for being willing to make this call instead of the website having issues while live.
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