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From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:30:32 +0200
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On 12/29/18, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, at 3:58 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>> Personally, I think HTTPS is overrated, or has just made itself
>> overrated.
>
> I've heard from multiple sources that this kind of single-ended
> authorization isn't worth much, but I'm not so sure.  My current ISP
> re-encrypts all data from imgur with their own certificate, which means I
> know the connection is being interfered with.
>
I like to think that I'm as sharp a security specialist as I'm likely
to encounter, despite living in a bit of a backwater.

My ISP (one of, thankfully) managed to arrange a certified X.509
certificate for a domain I have absolute control over. Since then, the
web site has had its ups and down, last of which (I really can't raise
enough anger to take them on) they won't let me install the
certificate myself: it needs root privileges and they won't grant them
to a user.

Thing is, the web site has no need whatever for user security, we hold
no private information,

Lucio.

PS: That was a bit O.T. But I bet I could run the site on a Plan 9 server...