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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:23:05 -0800
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
Cc:        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 12/10/17 10:15, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> They are not "hypothetical characters," they are invented characters that
> are used in a threat model. But that's reframing the problem- a
> hypothetical threat model is very different to a real threat model.


This is a very real threat model. There are a lot of malicious Tor exit 
node operators, and a lot of FreeBSD users update their system over 
subversion. The only thing that the Tor node operator needs to do is to 
detect relevant requests and serve malware.

How is this not real?


Yuri




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