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To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
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Subject: Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
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In message <898df78d-c0b1-9e9f-0630-2665c3939960@rawbw.com>, Yuri writes:

>3. The user updated the sources through Tor and got hacked.
>
>Where did this user go wrong, or where has he been irresponsible?

He trusted Tor?

In 2006 Steven Murdochs "Hot or Not" work in TCP timers revealed
that a LOT of the Tor network is on a longitude compatible with a
"Bandit of The Beltway" location.

If you still, elleven years later, seriously belive that Tor is
trustworthy, you shouldn't be allowed near any kind of security
decision.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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