What Happened to the EndDEI government Website?

http://www.enddei.ed.gov/ ^

[Openurmind]

Yeah... Someone “forgot” to redirect an official government website... Could have been on purpose just as well as it could just be a mistake. lol

I think at this point it is a coin toss...

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

The general website works but the one to file a complaint does not. The general website has a form for feedback but that doesn’t work either...

[rlmorel]

Thanks for your input. It isn't black magic because the people I know who worked with certificate generation and installation generally disliked it, but seemed to understand it well enough most of the time to get the things installed correctly.

I am always reminded of that Arthur C. Clarke quote: “Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Magic”

Watching them solve problems associated to certificates sometimes brought this quote to mind, especially when they were stumped by a problem...

[Openurmind]

Sorry about that, all I can do is get you to it. Did you try turning off any script/ad blockers? Government sites are bad that way. They make links dead until you allow them to be completely trusted by your browser.

Or... They have purposely turned them off. But I run into that with government sites. If you want to use them you have to allow them to give you all the cookies they want to. Or some elements will work and others like buttons will not.

[Openurmind]

Yes, sometimes it is a pain to get certificates applied correctly. Especially if you have any other subdomains within the parent domain. It took me awhile to sort it out the first time I got hosting. Even the directions do not make any sense... Fortunately now a lot of hosts have set up utilities that help make it easier. :)

I like those certificates they hand out on the Gemini network. Easy to get and you can date them to be good for ten years if you like... :)

[rlmorel]

I understand the value of them and why they are so danged hard on occasion, but I still lament having to be exposed to them. Dang it.

[Openurmind]

Yes, A Secure Socket is an absolute must. But even then it is funny how even a Secure Socket still requires a VPN to be truly secure. Apparently a SSL is not as secure as it is supposed to be. I’m not sure, but if you configure a site to allow both HTTP and HTTPS you could probably be just as secure on HTTP with a just a VPN and no SSL.

But I don’t shy away from sites that are throwing up browser warnings because of bad certificates. It is the new form of censorship of sites. They will throw up a warning to scare you away even though when you push through anyway it turns out the domain does and it is indeed working to create a SSL like it is supposed to. I have noticed a lot of this lately.