Interesting. Thanks for the find. The seller seems to be a paint company? Maybe I am looking in the wrong place. This is the link I am looking at.
>"Detailed information about the seller
Commercial name: Pinturas Contimex Sa de CV"
You seem to be fully well aware of how risky it is to put so much in one stock. Since I don't know your age or current earnings, it's hard for me to be overly critical. But what you're doing seems clearly wrong.
Nevertheless, I'm with you on the long view for this company. I hope we both enjoy massive profits here over time. Just some quick math for fun. If you put $135,000 in, if you did so at a reasonably low price of 8, that gives you 16,875 shares. At a price target of $35, (which exceeds some of the more optimistic analyst expectations), you get $590,625. If that's enough for your retirement planning, ok. If not, I'd suggest you put any new savings into some other vehicles as well. Using the 4% rule for retirement savings drawdown, you're living on 23,625/year. Assuming you've paid off your house, have a good car, and live in a very affordable place, is this enough?
I hope SRNE does more than $35 one day. I hope that it does something stupid irrational and makes us crazy rich. However... I'm not planning on that. So again, I'd just suggest that any new investment money maybe get diversified. It's really not for me to tell you what to do of course. It's just I see the YOLO crap on here sometimes and... well... it doesn't always work out so well. GLTA in any case!
So really, this whole thing about secure or not for this particular site almost doesn't matter. But just some tl;dr for anyone who really cares...
There's no serious transactions here. There's no HIPAA issues in terms of secure data. It's just a brochure-ware info site. The whole thing is built on Joomla, which is just an open source content management tool. You can easily see this by looking into the source code of the page; which his not hacking or anything complex, it's just how web pages work. (Joomla is a bit weak I think, but Drupal is more of a PITA... not sure why they didn't just use WordPress unless maybe there's more sophisticated stuff coming.) You can get more tech info on it by using builtwith.com the same as any other site.
It is possible SSL was made after going live. Sometimes it's easier to slap stuff on after all the real world live domains are working, rather than 'stub out' functionality or use flags for development vs. production servers. It's lazy, but it's ok for this kind of thing. The main reasons - as I've said - for why its best practice regardless of content type is a) Google does use it as a quality signal and therefore it impacts search ranking, and b) browser privacy/security settings might take issue with non-ssl sites.
Nothing really to see here. Really. Moving on then.