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ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE, '15 CRF110F, '13 TT-R50E Posts: Too much.
Blog Entries: 7
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SSL cert expired
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. ![]()
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Cat herder
Name: Gort
Location: A secret lair which, being secret, has an undisclosed location
Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2012 Triumph Street Triple R (street), 2006 Yamaha R6 (track) Posts: A lot.
Blog Entries: 6
MOTM - Jul '18, Nov '16, Aug '14, May '13
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Go on, admit it. You're Zuckerberg in disguise, aren't you?
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ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE, '15 CRF110F, '13 TT-R50E Posts: Too much.
Blog Entries: 7
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I can neither confirm or deny.
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Guy Who Enjoys Riding
Name: Jim
Location: North Central North Carolina
Join Date: Jul 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja 250 Posts: A lot.
MOTM - Oct '18, Aug '17, Aug '16
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Thanks Alex... I got the warning this morning, but figured that by now I can probably trust the site.
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: AKA JacRyann
Location: SF East Bay
Join Date: Dec 2011 Motorcycle(s): CB125T, Ninja250R racer, Ninja250R street bike, EX250F#1, EX250F#2, VF500F, CBR600RR Posts: A lot.
MOTY - 2018, MOTM - Nov '17
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Cat herder
Name: Gort
Location: A secret lair which, being secret, has an undisclosed location
Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2012 Triumph Street Triple R (street), 2006 Yamaha R6 (track) Posts: A lot.
Blog Entries: 6
MOTM - Jul '18, Nov '16, Aug '14, May '13
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Rick
Location: Alexandria, Louisiana
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 Blue Ninja 250 Posts: Too much.
MOTY - 2017, MOTM - Oct '16, May '14
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I took a leap of faith and clicked ok I trust Alex.
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ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE, '15 CRF110F, '13 TT-R50E Posts: Too much.
Blog Entries: 7
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Alright - we're good until 4/2020. Hopefully I'll fix it ahead of time at that point.
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Roger
Location: Mitchell, South Dakota
Join Date: Apr 2014 Motorcycle(s): 1978 Z1R, 1999 EX250(GPz), 2000 EX250, 2002 EX250 Posts: A lot.
MOTY - 2018, MOTM - Oct '16
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Kerry
Location: Ventura, CA
Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja250 Posts: A lot.
MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16
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Thanks for updating it! I got the warning, I trust the site, but I didn't know how to tell my computer "go there anyway." So I'm glad it's updated and my 'puter will let me come here again.
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: AKA JacRyann
Location: SF East Bay
Join Date: Dec 2011 Motorcycle(s): CB125T, Ninja250R racer, Ninja250R street bike, EX250F#1, EX250F#2, VF500F, CBR600RR Posts: A lot.
MOTY - 2018, MOTM - Nov '17
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Awesome!
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"a legend in my own mind"
Name: maverick9611
Location: Augusta,Georgia
Join Date: May 2017 Motorcycle(s): 2008 exploited 250r(red), 2008 klr 650(bull), 2016 duke 390(orange) Posts: A lot.
MOTM - Feb '18
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ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE, '15 CRF110F, '13 TT-R50E Posts: Too much.
Blog Entries: 7
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So this is how users at MyEtherWallet were hacked yesterday.
News story: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/24/1...tolen-ethereum Someone was able to corrupt/co-opt some DNS entries for the site, set up a new site, and the DNS took some users right to the phishing site. Once there, they had the credentials they needed to then go to the real site and start emptying wallets. Users who were robbed had to click through that "this site cert ain't right" error, did so, and were taken to the malicious site - the site that they landed on couldn't provide a valid SSL cert and the browsers would have warned them. I only add this for some context about those cert errors. That use case above is pretty much the whole point of the technology. The site that you're going to might not be the one you expect, because the cert can't be validated - be cautious with where you go and what you enter if you do click past those warnings. In 99% of the cases, it's going to be something like happened here on Ninjette, with an expired cert due to an incompetent admin (like me). But every once in awhile, that cert error can be a real tip-off that something bad is about to happen because the site you're going to isn't the one you expect, either because it has been hacked directly, or you're being redirected to an entirely different location than you expected.
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Kerry
Location: Ventura, CA
Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja250 Posts: A lot.
MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16
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Good to know, thanks. I don't know much about how this works, and I trusted Ninjette, but it's good info.
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