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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:52:38 +0100
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>, freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
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> On 10. Dec 2017, at 9:45 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> =
wrote:
>=20
> 11.12.2017 3:37, Yuri wrote:
>=20
>> On 12/10/17 11:37, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> Hmm, you should not pass your traffic through the network operated
>>> by lots of malicious operators in first place. No matter encrypted =
or not.
>>> There are plenty of alternative ways.
>>=20
>>=20
>> Modern encryption protocols allow you to send traffic over insecure =
networks and still maintain your security and privacy, so why not?
>=20
> No, they don't. You get into MITM and then you have a choice: ignore =
and run your connection anyway
> or have no connectivity at all (using this channel). Both are bad, so =
don't use such a channel from the beginning.

You deconstructed the point you tried to make:

With HTTP MITM you don't have a choice.  ;)


Cheers,
Franco=



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