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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2017 03:59:29 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
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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11.12.2017 3:52, Franco Fichtner wrote:

>> On 10. Dec 2017, at 9:45 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
>>
>> 11.12.2017 3:37, Yuri wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Modern encryption protocols allow you to send traffic over insecure networks and still maintain your security and privacy, so why not?
>>
>> 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.  ;)

Whith HTTP going through another route you could have no MITM
because a) MITM is illegal for network provider and/or
b) nobody on this route cares of this HTTP connection (opposed to TOR operator).

Let's get it to real threat model instead of fictional one?




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