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Wonder how it would manage with TLS everywhere …
by rusk 3y ago
Wonder how it would manage with TLS everywhere …
- pjmlp 3y agoThe tasks I listed don't require TLS everywhere.
- rusk 3y agoThese days they do. Everyone does their business on the web. Sorry I get where you’re coming from but I was just adding this because as a vintage technology enthusiast this is an issue I come up against constantly.
- pjmlp 3y agoIn which part of "Writing letters, basic spreadsheets, homemade flyers" is TLS required?
- rusk 3y agoPut the baseball bat down bro. You are describing something I do a lot, I play with old computers and try to put them to use. Pervasive cryptography has changed everything even stuff that’s ten years old has issues with certificates and deprecated versions. In any modern setting this is a serious handicap. tl;dr our hardware requirements would be vastly slashed if we didn’t have an expectation of TLS everywhere.
- pjmlp 3y agoBro explain the HN audience how using AmigaWriter or PageStream, alongside a printer pluged via the Amiga printer port, requires TLS.
- rusk 3y agoWell you’re really narrowing down the usescases to suit an argument we really don’t even need to have this is boring
- pjmlp 3y agoYou are free to explain the same to the other use cases I mentioned on my first comment, and I am still curious. In case you go for email, I didn't mention the communication protocol, or possible existence of a gateway.
- kjs3 3y agoI though it was obvious: "you don't do what I do, exactly like I do it, therefore you are wrong". There's a lot of that type running around.
- anthk 3y agoAmiSSL exists. Gemini browsers for Amiga too.
- pjmlp 3y agoI know, I didn't specify Web browsing on purpose, because some "I feel smart" would exactly react as they did. Turns out there is still a lot of uses a computer can serve without being plugged into the Internet.
- icedchai 3y agoHis point seemed pretty simple to me. If you're running local apps, not going on the Internet, you don't need TLS. Nobody expects a 30+ year old retro system to run a modern browser.
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