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Reading Borough Council apologizes for dodgy infosec advice (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.