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Re: pkgsrc binary packages security with pkgin



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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