Old Stuff

[Robert Simmons]

The safer part of my speculation is specifically based on being less code
to maintain overall. More resources devoted to a smaller code base.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote:
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> Lolz, right? :-
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> > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove
> all
> > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and
> safer.
>
> Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any
> empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your speculation?
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> > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp.
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> How does the saying go, "if you think that encryption is the solution to
> your problem then you don't understand neither encryption nor your
> problem"? I would hazard a guess that over 95% of encrypted traffic needn't
> be encrypted at all, but no commercial interest developed "integrity over
> http" so we all have to suffer "encryption under http" instead.
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> Igor M.