[ale] [EXTERNAL] Rant: internet for the stupid

[DJ-Pfulio]

And you still can, but don't expect to hold other project teams do your desires.
Plain FTP can still be used and so can HTTP, if we like.
Heck, we can still use rcp if we like too. It is there and available, ready for use.  The ~/.netrc file still works too as does the ~/.rhosts file.

Inside my home LAN, I have little use for HTTPS, but I still use it to avoid problems from most browsers and addons that really want HTTPS to be used always.  If I really want to use HTTP, there is dillo, a minimal browser that doesn't validate any HTTPS certs, nor support javascript.

The world has changed.  Network protocols didn't need to be too secure in 1990. Non-secure protocols that are typically used over the internet need to be non-default. Think of the kids.

On 6/3/21 12:52 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> As far I agree with protocol not being secured I still want to make
> my own decisions what to use and what not.
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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 12:31 Chris Fowler via Ale <ale at ale.org
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*From:* Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>> on behalf of DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 3, 2021 10:48 AM *To:* ale at ale.org
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> DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> *Subject:*
> Re: [ale] [EXTERNAL] Rant: internet for the stupid
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> I'm anti-plain FTP.  Think it should have been killed off in 2002. 
> Very unfriendly towards firewalls. Next to zero security. Worse if
> people are using non-anonymous logins.
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> I agree 100%.  Almost no security and I am not crazy of its use of
> two ports.   I guess a relic of the time it was invented.
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