On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 08:47:50PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 19:42, Patrick James <patrickjame...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > About two months ago, there was a major ice storm in Austin, and the area > > was completely unprepared for such a storm. A friend of mine was without > > power for about 12 days. He has two small children, and he has good local > > resources, which were also impacted by the ice storm, and it was not easy > > on him. > > > > From the other messages here, the web server is in Austin, and was > > impacted by the storm. The basic claim extends to the ISP in terms of > > recovery from the ice storm, which propagated to the GnuCash server. > > > > No one here seems to have a philosophical problem with https, but when an > > ice storm bring the system down, well, that's a problem. > > > > There are people here that do not see the advantages of it. To quote Chris > Green above. > > "How does that make the site 'dangerous'? All it means is that > communication between you (i.e. the user) and the site isn't > encrypted. As you don't need to send or receive any confidential > information the lack of encryption is wholly irrelevant! > That hardly says that I do not "see the advantages"! :-)
I was just saying that I think the concept that a non-encrypted HTTP: site is 'dangerous' is misleading. If all you are doing is looking at the site and reading information then it doesn't matter in the slightest. > I would argue it is *not **wholly irrelevant* when the largest search > engine uses it as a ranking factor. Quite true, if the site in question want's to be found easily. Though in the case of someone searching for 'gnucash' I can't see how it makes much differenc, you can only really find gnucash if you search for 'gnucash'. The one case where better/higher Google ranking might be if someone searches for 'accounting software'. So, somewhat sadly, I agree that gnucash.org being an HTTPS: site is probably a good idea. It's just for not very good reasons IMHO. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
