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

[Jim Kinney]

Did not know that. I loaded palemoon on a laptop specifically for dealing with an ancient java version on ancient hardware with update path over 5 years ago. No longer used here.

On June 3, 2021 3:50:27 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Regardless of any advantages of Palemoon, Palemoon started
>lawyer-threatening the BSD guys instead of just telling them the rules
>of copyright. That day I ripped out Palemoon, and now I have a
>shellscript called palemoon that prints the following in a terminal
>emulator:
>
>============================================================
>This is a shellscript filenamed palemoon,
>not the browser called Pale Moon
>from https://www.palemoon.org/.
>
>Pale Moon browser was removed from this system
>because of Pale Moon project personnel's antagonism
>and implied threats at:
>https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
>
>Please use another browser
>And change default browser for programs calling this.
>
>Please press Enter after reading.
>============================================================
>
>SteveT
>
>
>Jim Kinney via Ale said on Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:57:13 -0400
>
>>Palemoon browser allows all the ancient protocols regardless of
>>insecurity. 
>>
>>On June 3, 2021 12:52:06 PM EDT, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>wrote:
>>>As far I agree with protocol not being secured I still want to make
>my
>>>own
>>>decisions what to use and what not.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 12:31 Chris Fowler via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of DJ-Pfulio via Ale < 
>
>>>> ale at ale.org>  
>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 3, 2021 10:48 AM
>>>> *To:* ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
>>>> *Cc:* DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] [EXTERNAL] Rant: internet for the stupid
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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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