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Year after year, decade after decade, all manner of security problems are avoided by running (al)pine on a remote server that I ssh to. Also, use is about ten
by rsync 11y ago
Year after year, decade after decade, all manner of security problems are avoided by running (al)pine on a remote server that I ssh to.
Also, use is about ten times faster than a web client.
- icebraining 11y agoWeb clients are no less secure, since browsers actually check the certificates. It's native (desktop & mobile) apps using unauthenticated IMAP or POP3 connections that are vulnerable. That said, I use the exact same approach; and Alpine is actually pretty usable even from an Android tablet, especially since JuiceSSH lets you create shortcuts that automatically connect to the server and run "exec alpine".
- rsync 11y ago"Web clients are no less secure, since browsers actually check the certificates." Only if you're pinning the cert... ssh does not rely on a hazy collection of 500+ middlemen that includes several rogue governments and very poorly behaved corporations to give you the "lock icon". In ssh, the key matches perfectly or it doesn't. SSL ? Not so much ...