http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20171205220849.GH9701 at gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes:

>Using this as a reason to not move to HTTPS is a fallacy. We should do
>everything we can to help our end-users get FreeBSD in the most secure
>way.

The vastly oversold "security" of HTTPS is entirely borrowed from
a confederation of root-CA's which no non-deluded person can ever
seriously trust.

Only if you trust *everybody* on this list, is HTTPS "secure":

	grep '^ *Subject:' /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt

And as if that delusion wasn't bad enough, the misguided and
simple-minded IT-liberalistic "Encrypt everything" campaign is,
100% as predicted, pushing governments to neuter encryption in
order to keep the court systems working.

"IETF and what army?"

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