Planning portal back online with a more secure connection

Facepalm. That’s all I can say.

The local authority declined to provide an answer on how the original advice to disable HTTPS was approved internally.

  • BeefPiano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I imagine that they were testing it internally and HSTS pinned cert was wrong and they figured out a way around it. It worked, so they shipped it

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But that’s so wrong I wouldn’t bet on 1st-2nd year students on making such conclusions. I understand that IT in general is a specific field and it requires a certain attitude towards tech, but failing to admit your own lack of knowledge/understanding/whathaveyou is baffling.