I’ve not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting.
I’m not affiliated in any way with this.
ETA: If anyone has read it / bought a copy, a review would be very appreciated.
I might have missed it, but it doesn’t look like their site accepts payment data, or has a login of any kind.
Why would the lack of SSL concern you?
The site is encrypted but you can also access the site over http. The author hasn’t configured any kind of HTTPS upgrade. This is an easily correctable oversight that a self proclaimed “self hosting expert” should have accounted for.
Why would the lack of SSL concern you?
Because it means my traffic to that site is in the clear. And while we’re not transacting anything sensitive necessarily. It’s still best practice to limit sniffing.
Automatically swapping to https should be default behavior for every website.
There’s no need to encrypt this data. Any entity that is watching you knows how to see the domains you visit, and everything on this site is on the main page, or a click away from it.
An SSL here is nothing more than security theater, or marketing.
An SSL here is nothing more than security theater, or marketing.
Or like I already said… is best practice.
The site links to a site that accepts payment data. So because the author’s site is http, a MITM attacker could change the payment links from lulu.com to site-that-actually-steals-your-credit-card.com.
That’s one huge thing https provides over http… assurance of unadulterated content, including links to sites that actually deal in sensitive data.
