ShiftOEM

[Bert Poliakoff]

I think DesktopDave hit a homer with this site (shiftOEM). The last 6 or so months, RealOEM is almost impossible to use due to a severe amount of dropdown. Enter ShiftOEM. No problems and a pleasure to use Kudos to DTDave

[RSheiman]

Ahhh, why did I not know this? The moving target of RealOEM does not seem to occur on a Mac but is quite annoying on a PC. Thanks Dave and Bert.

[Bert Poliakoff]

Oh no!! I am on a Mac with dropdown turned off, and RealOEM let's them through. As far as I understand it, it's a website issue

[maxg765]

Thanks for sharing

Max

[Bert Poliakoff]

Is anyone else having trouble getting into this site? I keep getting a message that the site could be compromised and it gets me worried about opening it up

[marc79euro635]

Yeah, I tried it and my Edge browser warned me not to open.

[DesktopDave]

Damn, that's unfortunate timing. It's always a good practice to follow web browser warnings, even in a sorta/kinda gray area like this, so let's hope they get this cleaned up soon.

ShiftOEM.com's encryption certificate expired, which will cause a website to drop out of HTTPS. Looks like their web admin was sleeping at the wheel, so to say. Their certificate was provided by Sectigo, a quite legitimate certifying authority. Here's the relevant info, note the last line:

Common Name (CN) www.shiftbmw.com
Organization (O) <Not Part Of Certificate>
Organizational Unit (OU) <Not Part Of Certificate>
Common Name (CN) Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
Organization (O) Sectigo Limited
Organizational Unit (OU) <Not Part Of Certificate>
Issued On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM
Expires On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 6:59:59 PM

This website is registered in Iceland, which actually reassures me. Iceland has some really interesting privacy laws, so I'd expect to see something like a copy of the BMW TIS being run there. The ShiftOEM.com domain's registered tech contact is:
Technical Contact
Organization:Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf
Street:Kalkofnsvegur 2
City:Reykjavik
State:Capital Region
Postal Code:101
Country:IS
Phone:+354.4212434

I sent them an email about it, hopefully it won't get spammed and they'll have it all fixed up soon. Full disclosure: I've been an IT Systems Administrator for many years. One of my job responsibilities is web site administration.

[Bert Poliakoff]

Hey Dave let us know when they have notified you that all is well with them