British media reported that in the beginning of the week leading web browsers blocked the access to the UK Conservative Party's website - www.conservatives.com. Browsers displayed a notification that the connection may not be valid and any data left on the site could be stolen. The reason was quite trivial: the domain owners simply forgot to renew the security certificate. Therefore, the data transfer was not encrypted, which is a warning sign for modern browsers.
Journalists, bloggers and Twitter users in the UK didn't miss a chance to leave witty comments. Their statements express the main idea that even if the Conservative party defends traditional values, it would do it good to have a little understanding of modern technologies to support the function of its own website. At the moment the problem has been eliminated and the website functions normally.
