Microsoft’s Fingers in Every Pie: The Cult Mentality That Society Needs to Become Wary of | Techrights 📦

1    11 Jul 2020 13:17 by u/WinstonThe9th

9 comments

1 u/oshout 11 Jul 2020 13:58
Cert error on the site
1 u/WinstonThe9th [OP] 11 Jul 2020 14:00
hmmm... It worked a few minutes ago. I'll see if I can find another link.
1 u/oshout 11 Jul 2020 14:03
The cert error says they have a misconfiguration in the cert , it's lacking an subject alternative name So it's responding as website.com And not also with "internal.servername.domain.com" It's on their side, domain wide. likely they made a mistake, left a field blank when generating a new certificate Most times users you can just click continue /ignore but I tend to avoid that due to not wanting to compromise myself by something I'm ignorant do (eg what's possible for malicious actors to do in this scenario) Also clicking continue ignore on certificate errors is not a good habit to be in
1 u/WinstonThe9th [OP] 11 Jul 2020 14:04
I was able to access the page from their site but not from an external link. Probably just have to wait a bit.
1 u/None 11 Jul 2020 14:14
Waiting won't fix a wrong cert. The website admin needs to get a cert signed by a publicly trusted certificate authority such as Let's Encrypt or Verisign. The site currently uses a self-signed cert that will cause browser warnings and errors to users accessing the site over https.
1 u/None 11 Jul 2020 14:15
I see a self-signed cert, it won't be trusted even with correct SANs.
1 u/WinstonThe9th [OP] 11 Jul 2020 14:47
But why would the link work from a search engine but not a link here? This link works https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Microsoft%27s+Fingers+in+Every+Pie+Techrights&t=brave&ia=web&iai=r1-0&page=1&sexp=%7B%22v7exp%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22rgiexp%22%3A%22b%22%7D
1 u/None 11 Jul 2020 14:52
Because the link from DDG search results is a HTTP link, not HTTPS.
1 u/WinstonThe9th [OP] 11 Jul 2020 14:51
There seems to be a cert error. This works. It's the first link. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Microsoft%27s+Fingers+in+Every+Pie+Techrights&t=brave&ia=web&iai=r1-0&page=1&sexp=%7B%22v7exp%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22rgiexp%22%3A%22b%22%7D