Re: pkgsrc binary packages security with pkgin

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2020-01-31 15:02, Greg Troxel wrote:
> The other thing https gives you is hiding the names of the packages you
> download from passive eavesdroppers on the network bewteen your computer
> and the TNF server.  One such possible eavesdropper is your ISP.  This
> is part of the "https everyhwere" push; there is no reason to expose the
> list of requested resources to passive eavesdroppers.

At which point you probably should be loosing sleep because the ISP can 
still see where you connect to.

  Johnny

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