[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge website security certificate

[Al Billings]

Yeah, we can get an SSL certificate from a vendor that the browsers 
support, rather than going third party. Until we do, every user in every 
browser is going to get a warning and have to override security settings 
to add the cert. I know a bunch of people, mostly my coworkers and 
security people, that refuse to add third party certs to their stores so 
they just won't look at our site.

On 3/21/09 10:30 AM, Mitch Altman wrote:
> A bunch of people have told me about being somewhat freaked out by the 
> dire warning given them by their web browser saying that they are 
> under great danger if they proceed to look at our Noisebridge website.
>
>
> Is there anything that someone can do to fix this problem?  Like, 
> fast?  I know there's a lot of philosophical questions about 
> supporting The Man, and all (and I would love to see a real solution 
> to that), but how about if we fix it fast and then come up with a 
> better way in the year we have to discuss it?
>
>
> Keeping our site looking "dangerous" to those who don't understand 
> what security certificates are about makes us (and perhaps hackers in 
> general) look pretty bad to the world.
>
>
> Someone I met at ETech (Dylan Tweney, a really cool person, and senior 
> editor of Wired.com) is doing a story on Noisebridge and other hacker 
> spaces.  When that story goes out, there's gonna be a ton-'o people 
> checking out our website.
>
>
> Mitch.

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