A short lag in a security certificate renewal resulted in some users of the Steamship Authority website receiving a security warning when logging onto the site. However, there was no threat, SSA spokesman Sean Driscoll said.
“There was a brief issue on Sunday with a site security certificate that renewed on Sept. 1, and may have caused the errors,” Driscoll emailed. “The errors would have resolved by reloading the site, and would have affected a small number of users. The site itself was not down at any point.”
Drscoll noted SSA web service and firewalls weren’t involved. “The certificate is issued by a third party to verify that we own the website and to ensure that the users are connected to a legitimate site,” he wrote. “It’s good for a certain length of time and has to be renewed — this was on Sunday. It has nothing to do with who provides our Internet service or our firewall.”
Well, I guess we should be grateful this didn’t involve SSA workers throwing traffic cones at protected bird species, foul smells from boat lavatories, leaks from boat ceilings upon laptops below, burst hydraulic pipes upon automobiles, cancelled ferry trips, smashed and patched together transformer pads, frozen/stuck boat doors, sparring internal factions, stranded passengers floating aimlessly for 5 hours due to lost power, 550 cancelled trips in 4 months, “lack of a clear and aspirational vision” by Management, a “penny pinching mentality”, suddenly closed parking lots, lack of any clear mission statement, mysterious fast ferry engine problems, lack of community consultation on WH terminal design, failed generators, rudder issues, bow thruster issues, failing reservation system, tone deaf rate hikes combined with deflected blame on previous SSA administrations, …..I am exhausted…. yes, thank goodness the SSA merely had a lapsed security certificate for their website. I mean, it’s not like boatlines should actually be expected to have a person monitoring these things.
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