{"id":304,"date":"2007-11-28T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-11-28T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T20:51:58","slug":"codebreakers-not-making-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Codebreakers not making codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a> museum web site&#8217;s online shop does not use SSL to protect the transactions.  So I sent them a serious (but slightly tongue-in-cheek) email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m wondering why an organisation with a great track record of cracking codes does not deem it necessary to protect online transactions?<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is: why is the Bletchley Park online shop not using https for secure transactions?  At present, the shop uses unprotected http, which means that personal details, including credit card numbers, are sent in the clear across the internet.  This means the details are even less secure than German WWII radio transmissions! \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure if Alan Turing was still there he wouldn&#8217;t have stood for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that the Bletchley Park museum web site&#8217;s online shop does not use SSL to protect the transactions. So I sent them a serious (but slightly tongue-in-cheek) email: I&#8217;m wondering why an organisation with a great track record of cracking codes does not deem it necessary to protect online transactions? What I mean is:&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=304\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}