Ted Cruz Needs Your Help Transferring Funds Out of the Country

[DaShi]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/ted-cruz-for-presidents-ssl-certificate-nigerian-prince-headache/

This morning, as Senator Ted Cruz launched his bid to become president of the United States, some people who visited his site thought he might also want to become a Nigerian prince. At least, that's what his site's certificate said.

It turns out that Cruz' campaign had registered to use CloudFlare as the content delivery network for its WordPress-based tedcruz.org site, anticipating a flood of traffic from would be supporters. But because the Cruz campaign hadn't yet uploaded a certificate to identify the site for secure visits, CloudFlare's systems automatically assigned the site one of its own certificates, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince told Ars. "The Cruz campaign didn't do anything wrong," he said. "It was an automated process on CloudFlare's part." The certificate that the Cruz campaign's site got assigned to was also assigned to nigerian-prince.com.

CloudFlare assigns multiple sites to each of its own pool of SSL certificates, Prince said, "to limit consumption of IP addresses. By default we put more than one site on a certificate—if you don't upload your own certificate, then you share one." As soon as it was noticed that the Cruz campaign site shared a certificate with nigerian-prince.com—a site that displays only a joke about Nigerian "419" scams—CloudFlare and the Cruz campaign uploaded a new, private certificate, though tedcruz.org still appears on the certificate for nigerian-prince.com.

The certificate, however, is probably the least of the Cruz campaign's Internet problems. The domain tedcruz.com is currently hosting a site that urges people to support President Obama and immigration reform. And while the tedcruz.org site is intended to take donation information, it doesn't use SSL by default—so donors' credit card data could potentially be exposed.

All you have to do is let him place his campaign funds into your bank account. Then when he becomes a Nigerian Prince, he'll be able to use the funds to convert Nigeria into a conservative paradise (although the example set in Somalian seems to indicate that you don't need much money to do that). You will then get a high ranking position as a duke or something.

[ZEE]

TaShi, you are Poasting a lot lately. Are you OK?

[DaShi]

Every post I write is love poem to you. :heart:

[Kidlicious]

I'm drunk, so I'm sending money.

[Uncle Sparky]

If BK would renounce his Canadian citizenship, he could be Cruz' running partner.

[DaShi]

I'm so happy Cruz is running. Finally, a candidate willing to raise the discourse of republican primaries to the level it needs.

[-Jrabbit]

Despite his embarrassingly pandering views on issues of GOP othodoxy, the fact is that Ted Cruz is a really intelligent guy.

The question is whether he's smart enough to convince America that, despite graduating Princeton and Harvard, he's not some kind of Ivy League elitist.

[FlameFlash]

And this is just another reason why the government should stay out of trying to manage the Internet.

[Dr Strangelove]

Ted Cruz has signed up for ObamaCare. To avoid scandal his wife took an unpaid leave from her job with Goldman-Sachs, so they lost their benefits. Ted Cruz then acquired insurance from an exchange in order to be in compliance with the law.

[The Mad Monk]

Cruz's father is pretty nuts.