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Reminds me of Apple removing the headphone jack and being so proud of themselves for "being brave". Just yesterday I found a link to FTP while researching some
by keyme 5y ago
Reminds me of Apple removing the headphone jack and being so proud of themselves for "being brave".
Just yesterday I found a link to FTP while researching something. Was pretty annoying to go get another FTP client up and running to get it.
Anyway, the movement away from unencrypted protocols to TLS-only is moving us closer to a fully censored internet. Sure, an unencrypted internet did not have any integrity guarantees, and thus was easy to censor (and worse) by totalitarian nation states.
However, a TLS-only internet is very easily censorable by our new global central planners (FAANG). This way, they'll have much more control than was available to the common MITMing nation state.
- estaseuropano 5y agoBut Apple removed it to charge Mord for dedicated headphones. While Mozilla removes it to delete a Malware vector and/or save programming resources.
- ncann 5y ago> While Mozilla removes it to delete a Malware vector and/or save programming resources. Malware vector, really? When was the last time FTP was a major malware distribution channel as opposed to, you know, plain http? And I don't buy the "save programming resources" argument either. FTP is an old, simple and stable protocol, it's not like there's much need to touch that code.
- hulitu 5y agoIf Mozilla wants to remove a malware vector, it shall remove javascript.
- raxxorrax 5y agoGovernments will corrupt the TLS chain of trust at some point, so we would be even worse off. We would have encrypted communication with privileged government access. I think it is actually competition that keeps TLS trustworthy.