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Comment on Things you don’t expect to see in traffic: Unicycles by James

James — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:33:17 +0000

That is me! Weird! I was just looking on Flickr for “unicycle commute” on the offchance I saw somebody I knew (there aren’t very many unicycle commuters and we tend to know each other haha) and was shocked when I saw a picture of myself. I found your website from your Flickr profile and decided to comment on this. I have random rides and information on my site: dcuni.com

Finding this picture made my day.

-James

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by rdn

rdn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:50:03 +0000

Been getting this certificate, too. It’s disconcerting — I won’t hit Continue, so simply had to restart my computer. When I figured out it was the Plaxo client, I uninstalled.

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by beth

beth — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:25 +0000

My ‘trust me’ certificate says it’s from *.plaxo.com and issued by Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority. I’d put a screenshot up if I could, but it says the certificate is signed by an unknown authority. The issuer name is Go Daddy, Inc. out of Scottsdale, AZ.

I’m not a techie and don’t understand what some of you are talking about so…. what do I do? I have a Mac and can’t get rid of this darned thing and don’t want to hit ‘continue,’ either.

Please help! It’s annoying as all get-out.

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Nate Hanna

Nate Hanna — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:36:45 +0000

Drew,

When will this text change be rolled out? I myself just got this message today 20 June 2008 at 6:35 PM EST and again at 9:35 PM EST. I’m guessing it is okay to accept the certificate; I’m still not 100% sure.

Best Regards,
Nate Hanna

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Dimitri

Dimitri — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:06:02 +0000

Drew,
I got this for the first time today, but it was because the certificate expired. Aren’t tons of people about to get this error?

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Fx

Fx — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:33:04 +0000

Just came across the same error dialog, very annoying indeed. Finally killed the Plaxo client once I figured out it was the culprit. This damn popup was showing every 2 minutes, with no other option except to “continue”. According to the dialog box, it looks like the CERT is no longer valid, hence the disagrement. As a side effect, my Mac Book Pro was crawling.
I am connected via ethernet and through ADSL, no wifi here.

More than “expect the unexpected”, it is once again the good old “don’t assume this code will never run” that should be carved with a hammer into every coder head. I think I will wait a few days before running the Plaxo client again…

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0000

We have worm sign.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcuthrell/2595793981/

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by John Cunningham

John Cunningham — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:16:58 +0000

I’m another one of the “freakers” The odd thing is that I’ve set Plaxo to sync only when I tell it (i.e., manually), and I have also unchecked “Automatically start Plaxo at login” in, so I don’t see why it should need to access the Plaxo servers and then receive this certificate as a result.

Drew - Any thoughts?

BTW I contacted solutioninc about their certificate, and received this reply:

“This certificate is valid and provided by SolutionInc as a standard self
signed certificate.

There will be no issues with accepting.

Yours,
Jerry”

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Drew Colace

Drew Colace — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:41:48 +0000

Clayton-

Thanks for the additional info on your setup. After discussing this with a few other folks here at Plaxo we settled on modifying the alert to read:

“Plaxo Notifier is receiving an untrusted certificate while attempting to retrieve updates from the Plaxo servers.” since there is really no way for us to know if there is a legitimate reason (such as in your case) or if something phishy is going on. This change will appear in our next release of Plaxo for Mac.

I hope that this will relieve the anxiety somewhat if someone using Plaxo for Mac runs into this situation.

I’m sorry to all those members that have run across this issue - it was never my intention for this to be seen by anyone other than our SQA staff. The adage, “expect the unexpected” is ringing in my ears forever more.

Comment on I think Plaxo thinks they’re funny by Clayton

Clayton — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:10:18 +0000

Drew,

We have a bunch of BlueSocket APs at work, and they all have self-signed certificates. They intercept the first set of HTTP requests, and force you to sign in before you can go further. If it makes you feel better, Entourage generally crashes every time this happens.

As far as Apple goes, I wish they would put the application name there also. The application icon is fairly small, and the user might not necessarily recognize the icon, especially for something like Plaxo where it’s running in the menu bar, not the dock.

Sorry to all the commenters, comment notification was broken, and I didn’t realize they were pending moderation until I went to upgrade Wordpress this morning.