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To: Monkey Face

Quite likely their certificate expired. Interwebs people use certificates to encode/decode secure messages. Certificates are issued by trusted authorities and there is some complicated math in their generation and use that makes them practically impossible to hack.

They have expiration dates so you can’t manage to nip somebody’s certificate and use it - sort of identity theft. If you do manage it you have to reauthorize before expiration. If you don’t, every technology that uses such a certificate will at the very least alert you and at the very most alert the feds.

There are ways to tell your browser to go ahead, that you’re not that worried about some spy learning that you use the library. Of course, if you like to read books about conservative topics you might want to keep that secret. Anyway, Let us know if you want to try to get around this.


4,214 posted on 03/23/2021 8:42:00 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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OK. That makes perfect sense. So yes, I do want to know how to get around it. In fact, my sanity depends on getting around it and getting to the library online. Thanks!

If I read books on conservative topics, I usually buy them, because there are times when they need to be read again.


4,217 posted on 03/23/2021 9:21:56 AM PDT by Monkey Face (A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory.)
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