[ale] Funny for the day

[leam hall]

Yup, but I get paid to support the commercial clone. Staying on CentOS 6
keeps my few brain cells on topic. Most of my needs are pretty minimal so I
rarely run into issues. If it's important enough for me to bother with I
compile from source.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:43 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Fedora 26 to the rescue?
>
> Running a desktop on really old platforms brings lots of little issues,
> IME.
>
> On 01/23/2018 12:08 PM, leam hall via Ale wrote:
> > At home, through Comcast, so probably by definition untrusted.
> > Interesting...
> >
> > The Firefox version is 6 major versions behind (52.x.x vs 58.x.x).
> > Trying to upgrade fails due to FF wanting Gnome3 libraries. Chrome broke
> > some months ago. Name servers or OpenDNS and Google.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com
> > <mailto:splante at insightsys.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Works for me in Chrome (openSUSE & Mac). I see:
> >
> >         Issued by: SSL.com Premium EV CA
> >
> >         Expires: Monday, November 19, 2018 at 6:59:59 PM Eastern
> >         Standard Time
> >         Serial Number: NV20081614243
> >         SHA-256 Fingerprint: 91 9B E3 02 2A 80 91 47 3D 40 1E 99 58 25
> >         42 FB DD E4 4F 59 F6 DF E1 DE 52 18 7E A1 C1 A0 2D F2
> >
> >
> >     Are you at home or work, on a relatively trusted Internet
> >     connection? Is it possible you're hitting a man-in-the-middle site?
> >
> >     --
> >     Scott Plante
> >     404-873-0058 x104 <tel:%28404%29%20873-0058>
> >
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >     *From: *"Leam Hall via Ale" <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> >     *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> >     *Sent: *Tuesday, January 23, 2018 10:02:43 AM
> >     *Subject: *[ale] Funny for the day
> >
> >
> >     Doing some research on SSL certificates and a Google hit goes to
> >     ssl.com <http://ssl.com>:
> >
> >     ####
> >
> >     Your connection is not secure
> >
> >     The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security.
> >
> >     ssl.com <http://ssl.com> uses security technology that is outdated
> >     and vulnerable to
> >     attack. An attacker could easily reveal information which you
> >     thought to
> >     be safe. The website administrator will need to fix the server first
> >     before you can visit the site.
> >
> >     Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY
> >
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