freebsd security - Dec 2017 - http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

The truly paranoid types that don?t want anyone to know they are using FreeBSD
apparently.

Honestly if they are that worried about http then get a private vpn tunnel and
run through that instead !
> On Dec 7, 2017, at 16:27, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:
> 
> --------
> In message <2a6d123c-8ee5-8e1e-d99b-4bce02345308 at rawbw.com>, Yuri
writes:
> 
>> The unfortunate FreeBSD user who updated his source tree through 
>> Tor [...]
> 
> Why would anybody do that in the first place ?
> 
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On 12/07/17 15:16, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> The truly paranoid types that don?t want anyone to know they are using
FreeBSD apparently.
>
> Honestly if they are that worried about http then get a private vpn tunnel
and run through that instead !

Some people aren't aware that they use http, and enable Tor because they 
think that it improves privacy. It's very easy to use such setup 
inadvertently.


Yuri