Ted Cruz's New Presidential Campaign Donation Website Shares Security Certificate With Nigerian-Prince.com
from the feeling-safe-donating-yet? dept
Update: Yes, as lots of angry people are screaming at us (including with detailed explanations of how incredibly, unbelievably, astoundingly stupid I must be), this is a result of Cruz using Cloudflare, which lumps unrelated domains onto the same HTTPS certificate. And yes, Techdirt.com's certificate is hosted by Cloudflare also, and we share it with other domains as well. Feel free to continue to read the original story below and contribute to how stupid you think I am in the comments...We're big believers in using HTTPS to secure websites (even if HTTPS certificates have their problems -- it's still better than the alternative). But there are pitfalls in setting up your certificate correctly as newly announced presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz apparently discovered this morning. Because along with his campaign launch speech (which was widely mocked by the Liberty University students who were forced to attend), he put up a website for donations. And that website didn't default to HTTPS and also listed nigerian-prince.com as an alternate domain on the security certificate, as first noted by the Twitter feed @PwnAllTheThings:
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I expected somebody 'blacker' truth be said :/
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For white Republicans he Ted Cruise from Texas.
For Hispanics he's Raphael Cruz, with a Cuban heritage.
For Canadian voters (The number of people living in Canada eligible to vote in American Presidential elections exceeds the number of eligible voters in several American states) he was born in Calgary, Alberta.
And now for blacks he's a Nigerian prince!
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and always backtracking some previous bullshit. A few of them actually admit they lie and say it is just campaigning.
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Cruz, Cruise (but not Crews for the rappers?)
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Re: Cruz, Cruise (but not Crews for the rappers?)
Please fix two typos though: On the second line, change "he" to "he's." And on line three his first name should be "Rafael", not "Raphael."
Granted, as Raphael he could attract the Italian and art crowd votes. And with Mitch McConnell, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans.
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Hispanics would have been too easy. Mitt's father George Romney was born in Mexico. If Barack Obama is a Kenyan because his father was from Kenya, then Mitt Romney is a Mexican!
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My point still stands: If Barack Obama is a Kenyan because his father was from Kenya, then Mitt Romney is a Mexican.
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Unfortunate Subject Alternate Names
Not Critical
DNS Name: ssl6477.cloudflare.com
DNS Name: *.a3mdirect.co.uk
DNS Name: *.balloonsoverbritain.co.uk
DNS Name: *.china-mmm.net
DNS Name: *.clickdigitalmarketing.co.uk
DNS Name: *.codacrm.com
DNS Name: *.fashion-hr.com
DNS Name: *.huntersdb.com
DNS Name: *.intelliot.com
DNS Name: *.katylee.com
DNS Name: *.markng.co.uk
DNS Name: *.myjourneyhampshire.com
DNS Name: *.office-kit.co.uk
DNS Name: *.office365.co.uk
DNS Name: *.owebboy.com
DNS Name: *.quotium.com
DNS Name: *.services-prefecture.com
DNS Name: *.techdirt.com
DNS Name: *.unitaco.com
DNS Name: a3mdirect.co.uk
DNS Name: balloonsoverbritain.co.uk
DNS Name: china-mmm.net
DNS Name: clickdigitalmarketing.co.uk
DNS Name: codacrm.com
DNS Name: fashion-hr.com
DNS Name: huntersdb.com
DNS Name: intelliot.com
DNS Name: katylee.com
DNS Name: markng.co.uk
DNS Name: myjourneyhampshire.com
DNS Name: office-kit.co.uk
DNS Name: office365.co.uk
DNS Name: owebboy.com
DNS Name: quotium.com
DNS Name: services-prefecture.com
DNS Name: techdirt.com
DNS Name: unitaco.com
None of those are quite as eyebrow-raising as nigerian-prince, but most of them are clearly not ones that Techdirt's operators would intentionally add.
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Who surely had nothing to do with it, right?
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2016 CAMPAIGN
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Hmm...
I am likely to vote for Ted Cruz as well. Anyone that pisses off both the left and the rino's has to better than the rest I have seen.
I will probably holing my nose when I do though... but we will have to see how things really shake out over the course of the campaign.
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Re: Cruz is far, FAR too stupid
These claims of Cruz being stupid are not founded in reality. I can understand if you don't like the guy but saying he is stupid only showcases how uninformed (stupid) you are.
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You realize you're voting for someone who's rabidly anti environment, anti fiscal responsibility (he's completely OK with runaway defense spending) anti good government (he's proven, repeatedly, that he's more interested in bomb throwing than the functioning of core government services) anti net neutrality (he's compared net neutrality to obamacare, for chrissakes).
I mean, if you really want the whole American experiment to just end tomorrow, I suppose I could see the logic in that vote...
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If you want anyone to take your party seriously, stop running candidates who are:
- Rich arrogant pricks, who are insensitive to the fact that we just got over a recession CAUSED BY THEM
- Old, feeble men who need to be propped up by a bubbleheaded dipshit from Alaska who has no business operating a fryolator, much less being vice president
Believe me, if Ted Cruz wins the nomination, you will surely lose AGAIN.
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Re: You realize you're voting for someone
The whole America experiment of self governance has been eroded over the course of many Presidents and Congress' since the New Deal and Obama has put the cherry on top.
We have hundreds of Executive Departments and Agencies many who wield the power to regulate with the same authority as laws. This is against the Constitution as only the Congress has the ability to legislate. Today Congress skirts it's duties to reign in a President such as Obama by not using the power of the purse and worse yet often sanitize his executive action.
The separation of powers have been broken down I support people like Ted Cruz who has a plan to restore the Constitution. That doesn't mean he has my vote in 2016, we have a long way to go.
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Oh, please please please don't vote for people based on who they make angry. Instead, vote for people because they most closely agree with what you think is in everyone's best interest.
If you vote for someone because they anger groups your dislike, you are being manipulated.
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Tails 1.3 Because Masnick does censor!
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Re: Tails 1.3 Because Masnick does censor!
As is "It will appear in a moment."
Not a free and fair forum, but a controlled walled garden. I didn't believe it either, but it's true.
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Re: Tails 1.3 Because Masnick does censor!
As is "It will appear in a moment."
Typical.
And since I was blocked in 5 minutes, I found the Tor button makes a new identity.
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Example: Reasoned
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Imagination
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Yes it is. I just seems normal now.
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Nigerian Prince??
They told me my money would be used to deposit a Billion$ in MY account!!!
DAMMIT!
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Republican Revolving Door
It's nice to know that Romney's Project Orca team have finally found new jobs.
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Land of the free ...
Uh, what? Universities are now forcing students to attend partisan political rallies? First, isn't that wrong (they're paying big bucks for tuition)? Second, isn't that stupid? I'd be organizing a mass heckle trying to get as many fellow students to shout him down to get us all thrown out.
Will they be forced to attend all the parties' candidates' announcements?
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Now certainly, not all credentials from various diverse institutions happen to be exactly equivalent. In fact one might say that a diploma from Liberty U is slightly peculiar...
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/coughcoughcough
/sniffle
"I'm sorry professor, I had to miss that speech because I have a nasty case of FUCK YOU!!"
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So what?
If you are implying that Christians don't swear then your choice of words is pretty ironic.
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Meaning it is both "Liberty" and "University"
It would be better named as a right wing christian fundamentalist theocratic diploma-mill.
For the liberty part. If you go there to study you need to follow a code conduct that prohibits (amongst many things) dancing or anything else that you could consider a social life, has a dress code for outside the university and allows for randomized drugs testing.
As for the university part. If science contradicts the bible, science loses. Also the bible is literally true and staff have to sign a pledge to that effect when they get hired. They are mediocre in courses that don't clash with the bible and it goes to downright crazy the more established science contradicts the bible.
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None of this is true. Dancing is loved by many of the students and we have several great dance teams on campus, there is 0 drug testing except for job applications, both the positions of evolution and creation are presented for the students to test themselves. Most of the professors here are very well-educated and it's been an honor to be able to attend here. I'm honestly not sure who told you those things, but they certainly haven't been here recently. Although the university was very conservative in years past, it has certainly loosened up for the better, without compromising its core values.
Cheers,
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Cheers,
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A lot of the event has been sensationalized--as a student at Liberty I was there and it really wasn't that bad. If you're interested in a clarification, there's a block of text the size of Alaska down lower that I wrote about it.
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Sounds Legit To Me.
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Cloudflare Certificates
Techdirt also site behind Cloudflare and has more than a dozen alternate names to various website hidden within the SSL certificate.
In my opinion, there is no security issue here. Just an unfortunate, yet amusing coincidence that Cloudflare paired these 2 domains together.
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I'm disappointed.
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Of course Cloudfare knows what they're doing—people gonna laugh about the pairing between Cruz and the Nigerian Prince. That's just human nature. It's politics. Not beanbag. Kinda funny sometimes.
I'm so sad you feel “disappointed”.
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I think the post should be edited to include an update clarifying that this is an implementation detail of a 3rd party provider and that this in no way impacts the security of the donation site (or this site).
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So does Ted Cruz's plan for lowering the US debt, and balancing our budget involve giving a Nigerian prince access to the federal reserve, so he can deposit some money into it temporarily?
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Damn you nigerian prince
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Nigerian-Prince
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Let the rush to ignorance begin.
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Like I said, my assumption there may not be fair to the site and what's actually on it, but if they don't want people assuming that it might not be the safest site to visit, and avoiding it as a result, then they chose the wrong name to register with.
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Well, I did, and I'm amazed that so few others did but assumed it was a Nigerian scam site.
I expected better from my fellow readers.
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Who's this clown anyway...
Oh, that guy's completely irrelevant and no one gives a shit about what he does or says?
Weird.
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LU Student Here.
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As a clarification, I was referring to the phrase "Because along with his campaign launch speech (which was widely mocked by the Liberty University students who were forced to attend)". The speech was generally well received, and most of the students here who disagreed with it had the decency to politely disagree--very few mocked it, and it was certainly not widely mocked. There were many standing ovations through the duration of the speech from the students, actually. I'm not directly a Cruz supporter, but I am glad that he chose the university as a launching pad for his campaign.
Cheers,
Tyler
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Also, do you think it is acceptable to require 10,000+ students to attend a political campaign speech? Looks good for the politician for marketing purposes, but usually we (Americans) make fun of politicians in other countries who require people to come to their speeches.
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Thanks for asking! I'm actually close friends with one of the students with the group, and the main spokesperson from them is not directly against Cruz. He was the leader of a group of students who wore "I stand with Rand" shirts at the announcement, because Cruz announced his campaign at a tri-weekly meeting that all students are required to go to. They don't directly support Cruz, and didn't want their attendance at the announcement to be misconstrued as support, so they wore the t-shirts to show that. They were supported by the President of the college and several other students for their decision (President's statement here: http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=152118).
Now in regards to Yik-Yak--I can't and won't deny that. There is a small, and surprisingly vocal group of complainers that does not like attending the tri-weekly convocation, and so they spend much of their time complaining about it. It's gotten much better since the fall, but it is certainly the go-to place if you want to anonymously complain about anything and everything for free internet points. If I were to put a number on the heavily active Yik-Yak complainers, I would put it at about 40 or so out of the 13,800 students that attend here, tops. They certainly have their free right to say what they wish, but it is sad to see such a vocal minority casting a less than favorable light on the majority.
Also, some of the news networks took snaps of fresh Yik-Yaks--ones that had just been posted and not voted on. Complaining is more and more being downvoted into oblivion. I'll list the top Yaks today for you, for reference.
- (tag jerryistheman) "Can we just acknowledge how much our school's president cares about us for a second. Like we messed up and he was like BUT YOU CANT PROVE IT. Like a protective dad. Dude we are lucky". 112 upvotes
-- (tag update) "I posted a few weeks ago asking for prayer as I started counseling...just wanted to say that it's going great and I'm gaining so much healing in my life...thanks for the prayers!". 72 upvotes.
-- "Oddly enough, I actually prefer seeing Yik Yak flooded with political debate instead of thirsty people soliciting sex or other idiots randomly [redacted]posting". 70 upvotes.
While I won't go out and say that the school is a perfect, shining example of an institution--no institution is and I think we can all agree on that--I will say that they do most things right. In retrospect, perhaps making attendance optional for this occasion would have been the best choice for not giving the media fodder to misconstrue Cruz's speech would have been a better decision, but hindsight is 20/20. I do know going into it, the school was more or less pitching it as an announcement, and the fact that it was a school-wide event did not seem to be an issue before it was made one.
And I'll give my last bit on your last bit. The university is very much embracing diversity, and so we get a wide variety of diversity when we have speakers come and speak at Convocation. Because this is a conservative, evangelical Christian school, the speakers tend to be from that sector. However, we do still get people that very few students agree with, such as Donald Trump or a liberal congressman (forgive me, his name is slipping my mind) to speak. It was very enlightening to hear their views, the congressman especially, and even though I don't entirely agree with his points, he was received very respectfully by the students and even though the majority of students did not agree with his views, they certainly listened and learned. That is the goal of Convocation, and one that is easily lost by several news networks in the series of yellow-papering a story. We've had politicians come through here with entirely optional speeches to attend, and they got a warm reception as well. All-in-all it's a very beneficial system, and the wonderful thing is that if it were not so and enough students were of that mindset, the president, who is very much loved by the students, would fix it.
Thanks for asking and I hope my long-winded response didn't bore you or scare you off. If anyone else has any questions I would be glad to answer them.
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As is often the case, news networks all across the board, on both left and right sides, like sensationalizing an issue to make it exciting. After all,that is the purpose of news. It is sad to see it at the expense of the university, which I have had a very solidly positive experience with, despite several widely-spread misconceptions. Thanks for the appreciation, it means a lot.
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Cheers,
Tyler
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Nigerian-Prince
Mike? Were you in on this little joke? Or were you (self-)spanked?
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Cruz
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L18gLF_1pI
Cheers,
Tyler
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BoehnerCare?
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Why hasn't this article been deleted?
You understand that a lot of people are only going to read the headline, right?
So why is it still up?
Oh...you're probably still getting clicks, aren't you?
I mean, why take something down even if it's not true when it's making money, right?
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Re: Why hasn't this article been deleted?
I mean, it's great that you've admitted your stupidity. So why is the example of said stupidity still online?
As far as I know, Techdirt doesn't remove any articles.
You understand that a lot of people are only going to read the headline, right?
How is other people's stupidity Techdirt's fault?
So why is it still up?
As far as I know, Techdirt doesn't remove any articles.
Oh...you're probably still getting clicks, aren't you?
I mean, why take something down even if it's not true when it's making money, right?
I don't know if it has changed lately, but Techdirt used to barely make enough to cover thier bandwidth costs. The Techdirt blog has historically been sort of a loss-leader for Mike's consulting business, Floor 64.
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Re: Why hasn't this article been deleted?
Ummm... why shouldn't it be?
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Click bait moron's
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