On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:01:57AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 18:43 +0400, Gleb Popov wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:05 PM Cy Schubert < > > Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I've been advocating removing FTP (and HTTP) from libfetch as well. > > > People > > > should be using HTTPS only. > > > > > > > Isn't this a bit too much? I often find myself in need to download > > something starting with "http://" or "ftp://" and use fetch for this. > > > > Indeed, we have products which rely on this ability in libfetch and we > have to keep supporting them for many many years to come. > > I hate it when someone imperiously declares [For security reasons] > "People should/shouldn't be using ______". You have no idea what the > context is, and thus no ability to declare what should or shouldn't be > used in that context. For example, two embedded systems talking to > each other over a point to point link within a sealed device are not > concerned about man in the middle attacks or other modern internet > threats. > +1 My small FreeBSD-based HPC cluster is deattached from the internet. -- SteveReceived on Thu Sep 17 2020 - 15:07:38 UTC
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