[ale] Funny for the day

[DJ-Pfulio]

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 uses security technology that is outdated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
>