Old Stuff

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:

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

Best of all is completly remove any code: no code -- no hole.

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote:
> >
> > Lolz, right? :-
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Igor M.
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