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General Banter / Re: Data Breach?
« on: October 09, 2020, 08:20:13 AM »
I disagree with your analysis and comparisons. The storage of the passwords is what is a safety risk. If a person uses a password here that they also use at Chase or TCF, and the password is here is hacked, then that person is at risk.  As I mentioned in my previous post, that is my concern and why I have a site specific password I use for only this site. I wanted to bring this to the attention of others. Secondly,  regarding cost. Kudos to you for running this site. As you know, I have offered to contribute to that in the past,  which you declined.

Find me a security expert that recommends that people use the same password at all the sites they use. Kudos for you for following the universal recommendation of Internet security experts to use different passwords for different sites, regardless of whether the sites use SSL or not, and bringing this recommended security practice to the attention of members of the forum.

Your concern amounts to, implement SSL so you can practice an unsafe computing practice with less risk. My position is just take personal  responsibility for practicing safe computing and don't try to get others to make up for your personal choices.

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General Banter / Re: Data Breach?
« on: October 08, 2020, 10:07:38 PM »
Greg,

There is nothing worth encrypting on the site. The only personal information required on the site is your email address. You don't even have to provide your real name. There is no financial information, no birthdate, no phone number, no credit card, no social security number, no home address. You can find much more personal information on the Internet doing a Google Search on your name. You don't have a clue on what SSL (encryption) is used for on the Internet. Running SSL would cost about $300 a year for the site.

Be specific. What security risk is it that you're worried about that implementing SSL will address? The "warning" just indicates the site isn't  using SSL and doesn't have an SSL certificate. There are millions of sites on the Internet which run without SSL, because they contain no significant user data and do no transactions which are necessary to protect with SSL.

Using this site is less of a security risk than driving your car down a public road. Using your license plate anyone can find out where the registered owner lives. It is public information. Using your email address from this site no one can figure out where you live unless you posted your email address and home address publicly somewhere or you posted it privately and someone you shared it with privately, shares it publicly or the place you posted both pieces of information is breached. As your home address is not required to do anything on this site, if you share it on the site and someone you don't want to get it, gets it, that's your fault, not the site's fault. Given how easy it is to get an account on the site and how little personal information is on the site, how much sense does it make to worry about the site being hacked? Unlike your car where you have to give your personal information to register, you don't have to do this on this site. You're worried about risk on this site? Cover the license plate on your vehicles first. It will do much more to protect your personal information than SSL will do on this site.

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General Banter / Re: Kentucky
« on: May 19, 2020, 07:21:30 PM »
Congrats Mike. Gotta be great to have this done and to on to the next stage.

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Introductions / Re: New member - nickname is Mittens
« on: June 04, 2018, 06:33:37 PM »
Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to meeting you in La Crosse.

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General Banter / Volunteering at STAR 2018
« on: June 04, 2018, 06:32:19 PM »
As local MSTA members to STAR 2018, it is customary for us to volunteer to staff STAR. After all, not only are we able to enjoy the roads around STAR much more readily than members coming from outside the area, we are also much more familiar with the area and better prepared to help visitors get the most out of their visit. If you haven't already, please volunteer to help at STAR 2018 in La Crosse, by providing  Dennis Villarose at ipnman2002@yahoo.com your contact information and letting him know that you'd like to help at STAR.

TIA for volunteering!

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General Banter / Steve Christenson
« on: July 09, 2017, 09:23:48 PM »
Just got a call from Don Christenson. Unfortunately his brother Steve hit a deer while riding his bike this morning . He is stable at Gunderson Hospital in La Crosse with a number of broken bones. He will need surgery to address some of his injuries but they are letting things settle out a bit before they take action. Please keep him in your thoughts at this difficult time.

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Congrats Carl.  I'm driving to Austin for MotoGP in the middle of April and have space to haul the bike to Texas if the buyer wants.

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Incredible deal. Must resist. I'd venture it is worth $2K more than the ask. So tempting.... GLWTS.

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Introductions / Re: New Member - Burnsville Sep2016
« on: September 28, 2016, 09:47:48 PM »
Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to seeing you on a ride or at a kickstand event.

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Introductions / Re: New forum member
« on: September 03, 2016, 08:11:32 AM »
Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to meeting you on a ride or at a kickstand event.

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Routes / Rockton BBQ Short
« on: August 02, 2016, 05:32:24 PM »
Ride Start: Beth's Twin Bluffs Cafe

Length: ~270mi. (about 40 miles shorter than the most used version) Slightly shortened route goes through Arcadia, Ettrick, Mindoro, Coon Valley, Westby, Rockton, Wildcat. Mindoro and back

Ride End: Nelson Creamery

PDF file

GDB file

GPX file

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General Banter / Re: 7 of the last 9
« on: July 14, 2016, 07:00:20 PM »
Can never have too many friends to ride with. I post rides and events on the forum and FB. They're just communications mediums....

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Introductions / Re: Intro from E.P>
« on: May 30, 2016, 09:26:23 PM »
Welcome to the forum. Hope to see you on more rides in the future.

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Given your schedule, I'm not sure it is a good idea to attempt this. The Rockies represent a high desert range which can receive large amounts of snow in very short periods of time up through Memorial Day. When I lived in Boulder I had to cancel a Memorial Day ride because we got hit with 18" of snow in Boulder. In April you need to think about getting as far south as possible to reduce the risk of getting stuck by weather.

I'd suggest looking for a route to Denver with an option of going across 50 to SLC  if the weather is good. A  back up route would be coming across the south of Colorado on 160 and out of the southwest corner of the state (Cortez) which sets you up to use 12 across the southern Utah.

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General Banter / Re: gptv
« on: March 19, 2016, 01:54:55 PM »
Never seen it done. I think the only way to get MotoGP on the web is to subscribe to the MotoGP stream or if you have Bein on your cable or satellite subscription and download the Bein streaming app.

Of course you could also come by on Sunday and forget all this web crap.....

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