{"id":891,"date":"2016-03-23T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=891"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:29:40","slug":"ssl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"SSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soliloquy blog is now running ssl!\u00a0 All requests will be handled through the secured side, <a href=\"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\">https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net<a\/> as a result of my <a href=\"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/.htaccess\">.htaccess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Because at this point SSL is super simple to set up in CPanel, cheap to purchase, and actually makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago when the firesheep plugin was released, it was required that <em>each server have is own IP address<\/em> to implement SSL.  Your traffic might be secure, but it doesn&#8217;t take much to guess where it&#8217;s going.  In my mind, this defeats the purpose of using SSL on a website.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way since then and now every major OS and browser (yes, this was a client side failure) supports SSL for websites sharing a server IP with other websites.<\/p>\n<p>So why SSL now?  Well, google damages your ranking for not having SSL.  Oh, and the whole argument about whether Americans have a right to encryption and privacy.  We do.  Backoff.  We&#8217;re citizens, not subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soliloquy blog is now running ssl!\u00a0 All requests will be handled through the secured side, https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net as a result of my .htaccess. Why? Because at this point SSL is super simple to set up in CPanel, cheap to purchase, and actually makes sense. A few years ago when the firesheep plugin was released, it&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=891\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}