[57north-discuss] TLS Certificates for official 57North services

[Shell Turner]

On 7 January 2015 at 20:53, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:

> It was also proposed that for our primary public facing presence that we
> used a paid certificate that was likely to be trusted in as many browsers
> as
> possible. I would object the hackerspace funding this browser-based
> terrorism where there are only a select few that get to choose who can be
> trusted on the Internet, and I would hope other members would object to
> their membership fees being spent in that way too.
>
> I am only proposing the use of CAcert certificates until EFF's Let's
> Encrypt
> is available for use. This would allow us to have browser trusted
> certificates for free.
>

This is tantamount to suggesting that we have a freeze on soliciting new
memberships, on organising any public events, and on generally being a
public-facing entity, until Lets Encrypt becomes a thing, because of your
politics. That's a reasonably big deal, so you should probably seek
explicit approval from the current member base before implementing this.

Shell
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