Secure
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019Now, the problem with making bold claims about “this site is secure” is that someone will happily come along and prove otherwise: the rather unwise claims from John McAfee about the “unhackable” BitFi Bitcoin Wallet, and its subsequent embarrassment by those all-round clever guys at Pen Test Partners shows that for sure, so I’m not going to make any such claims about this site, but what I will say is that if someone does hack it, at least they’ll be serving up malware over secure transport.
That nice chap Lee H-W has sorted new hosting: more space, better controls, and the glories of HTTPS now that Let’s Encrypt has made SSL certificates affordable (i.e: free). He even did all the work, which was nice, though some clever tools helped, and the move seems to have been pretty seamless. To be fair, it was seamless last time, but I had to do a bit of fiddling.
HTTPS is a good thing (TM), as browsers are increasingly flagging up plain HTTP as a security risk, and sending the logins over HTTP probably wasn’t ever a good idea.
A previous upgrade of PHP on the old hosting broke my Gallery, and I may not ever re-instate it, as these days Google or Amazon will host the GB of photos for nothing…