<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Act maintainers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would (again) offer for volunteering to get letsencrypt working together with Act.</div><div class="">Let me know how I can help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Roman<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 Jul 2018, at 11:38, Mark Keating <<a href="mailto:m.keating@shadowcat.co.uk" class="">m.keating@shadowcat.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hi Sebastian,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You're right this is an issue. The correct people to contact are the ACT maintainers (ACT is the underlying system that powers the conference site) and they are available via the ACT mailing list:</div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:act@mongueurs.net" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">act@mongueurs.net</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="">I have cc'd them into this email so that they are aware of it. I am fairly certain that they know there is an issue but it is always good to open the dialogue as there may be a way for others to help.<br class=""><br class="">Kind regards<br class=""><br class="">Mark<br class=""><br class="">On 05/07/2018 19:41, Sebastian Strajan wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CY1PR1201MB111513CC7DAA5BB63AEE4E9AF9400@CY1PR1201MB1115.namprd12.prod.outlook.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hi <span class="">Mark,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">I'm contacting you because I couldn't find a contact form for the <a href="http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2018-glasgow/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk222646" previewremoved="true" moz-do-not-send="true">http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2018-glasgow/</a> website.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">I found out that you published some feeds in <a href="http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2018-glasgow/atom/en.xml" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk580811" previewremoved="true" moz-do-not-send="true">http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2018-glasgow/atom/en.xml</a> and I tough that you may be able to help me or at least recommend somebody else for this.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">It seems that the website doesn't provide an HTTPS version.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">My concern is because the website provides a login page which sends the credentials in clear text, which can be captured with ease by somebody else and after that they can track everything in my account.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Also for users that reuse passwords this is a hazard, because all their/multiple accounts can be compromised because of logging on the conference website from an unsecure network (almost any public WIFI can be categorized as unsecure).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Moving from HTTP to HTTPS shouldn't be that hard, and now it can be done freely via <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk975331" previewremoved="true" moz-do-not-send="true">https://letsencrypt.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">If you are unfamiliar with the <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk748688" previewremoved="true" moz-do-not-send="true">https://letsencrypt.org</a> here are more details:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- can generate for free a HTTPS certificate that you can use for your website(s)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- you can use the <a href="https://certbot.eff.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk451817" previewremoved="true" moz-do-not-send="true">https://certbot.eff.org</a> to generate the certificate via CLI in a Linux box (you just need a webserver that can host temporarily a file - in order for letsencrypt to be able to validate that you are the owner of the domain for which the certificate is generated)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- certificate is valid for 90 days (this should be enough for manual generation - until the conference ends this will be valid, and after that the certificate will ensure encryption for the traffic, but the browser will tell you that the certificate has expired - it can be renewed if it is needed with the same process)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div>If you need more info or help please let me know and I'll do my best in helping you.<br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">In case I need to contact somebody else please let me know.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">Thanks,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">Sebastian Strajan</span></div></div></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72" style="font-size: 14px; 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