Hi folks -
Wanted to post a thread apologizes for the embarrassing oversight today of letting the SSL cert expire. Had received notifications for awhile, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. I'm remote today (at a security conference, ironically), but hope to get around to updating it late tonight.
To be clear, the site is no less secure (or more secure) than it was yesterday. SSL certs have an expiration date on them, but that timing is a bit arbitrary. Expiration does not mean anything bad happened to them, they've been compromised, or any other issue. It's just good security practice to keep them updated every few years in the off-chance that they were compromised at some point during that period.
Most importantly, there isn't any personal data stored here on this site about any of us. Everything that this site has in terms of user data is essentially open to all already; it's all of our posts that we put up to share with others. I moved the site to SSL awhile back as an exercise, but that turned out to be a bit prescient as Google started to encourage all sites to use SSL, even if there wasn't any sensitive or critical data stored on the site.
Happy to answer any questions here, and also take any well-deserved insults, put-downs, and general abuse for not getting to this in time.
