SSL not required for setup.exe download
Archie Cobbs
archie.cobbs@gmail.com
Sun Mar 10 16:35:00 GMT 2019
Hi Andrey,
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 8:35 AM Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> > Is there any reason not to force this redirect and close this security hole?
>
> If you care that much, you would use https.
> If not, then I see no reason to bend to hysteric crowd.
You are correct: careful, diligent, knowledgeable people will know to use https.
Those are not the people I'm worried about however... I'm worried
about the other 95% of humanity :)
-Archie
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