Slashdot Mirror
Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com)
More than 80 TLS certificates used by US government websites have expired so far without being renewed, leaving some websites inaccessible to the public. From a report: NASA, the US Department of Justice, and the Court of Appeals are just some of the US government agencies currently impacted, according to Netcraft. The blame falls on the current US federal government shutdown caused by US President Donald Trump's refusal to sign any 2019 government budget bill that doesn't contain funding for a Mexico border wall he promised during his election campaign. This has resulted in hundreds of thousands of government workers being furloughed across all government agencies, including staff handling IT support and cybersecurity. As a result, government websites are dropping like flies, with no one being on hand to renew TLS certificates.
Pence is a religious fundamentalist, much more dangerous than Trump, IMO.
border security YAY, Wall = monument to waste. They don't work.
Ah yes, the democrat talking point sans any actual facts. Actually, Walls DO work and they work quite well, there are multiple modern examples that show this (Including Acosta's news report from south Texas yesterday).. PLUS, if you build them properly, they have very little maintenance costs compared to "other" means of securing the border which all require larger amounts of man power to remain effective. So they are actually NOT wasteful, but quite efficient over time as they reduce manpower costs significantly over the long term. So you are wrong on both points.
So can we PLEASE drop the pretense here and just admit that this is a political fight... Democrats simply CAN NOT allow Trump to be able to claim success on "the wall" or they are sunk with their voters come 2020 and Trump cannot give in with his demands for a similar reason. The question has become more about a political win than protecting the border, and the democrats are clearly the ones who are inventing stupid stuff like "walls don't work" in their PR campaign. You tell me who's coming out on top here...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Okay, you sound like a Leftist, so I'll assume that the reason you believe the "majority of Americans" don't support the wall is because you only see things through politics and elections and "Hillary won the popular vote." Unfortunately for you with your asinine "walls don't work" virtue signaling, Americans who live near the border support the wall because they understand the actual negative impact of lax border security; and, border patrol (*actual* border experts) support the wall.
I, as an independent, support the wall. Why? Because for decades of my life, ever since I can remember, immigration has been a game of political "kick the can." Now, the disingenuous "Orange Man Bad" Democrats-- who previously supported stronger border security, including a "barrier"-- have completely flipped their position. Why? The problems associated with illegal immigration still exist. What has changed? My best guess is "Orange Man Bad."
It is hardly "acting like Children" to expect the elected executive to follow through on a promise he was elected on-- that is, the people wanted "a wall" or "better border security" or however you want to frame it. It is also quite *mature* of our president to follow through with trying to resolve the decades-old problem of illegal immigration despite all of the coordinated political smears he continues to face daily from the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.
And BTW, other than federal workers, nobody *really* cares about the shutdown. It is completely undetectable for average citizens. Do you frequent the websites affected by the shutdown? Other than the anti-Trump hyperbole pushed by the Corporate Media, do you have any genuine circumstantial relationship to the government shutdown?