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

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?


Yuri

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.