It’s property tax time. So I went to the SF treasury website to pay my tax bill. And got an SSL certificate error from Firefox. Oops the cert expired a year ago and is for the wrong domain. I get it, government web sites are often underfunded and don’t work well. Maybe they didn’t know how big a problem this presents in modern browsers that are enforcing SSL security. So I wrote a polite note to support. And got this response from the San Francisco 311 Customer Service Center. Please use the right protocol to access our website. Please use http://sftreasurer.org instead of https://… OK then… |