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Article #120Re: Should Altopia provide SSL at no additional cost?
From: DevilsPGD
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:33
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:33
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In message <47D5F0AC.1090008@no.email.invalid> Uni <no.email@no.email.invalid> wrote: >Chris Caputo wrote: >> Uni <no.email@no.email.invalid> writes: >> >>>Chris Caputo wrote: >>> >>>>Do folks think it would be a useful thing if Altopia provided SSL access >>>>at no additional cost? >>> >>>For what reason? So you can't get captured downloading nasty spam from >>>usenet? >> >> >> Reasons may vary. Off the top of my head, it prevents login passwords >> from being sent in plain-text, plus it gives dissidents or anyone else >> added protection from nosy ISPs/backbones/governments with sniffing >> software. As long as people respect the rights of others, what people >> read or post is their own business. > >So, can you provide me of ANY example where this has been a problem? Do you own a laptop? If so, do you use it on networks that you don't trust? As a traveler, when visiting hotels, using hotspots, or one of the worst, tech trade shows, any plain-text auth credentials are very likely to be sniffed on a regular basis. NNTP isn't a huge target, but it's not off the radar either. >If no, why offer it? Customer demand.
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X-Google-Thread: fd665,d4024adfc75b3a93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd665,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!lightspeed.eweka.nl!81.171.88.10.MISMATCH!ramfeed1.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!news.astraweb.com!border1.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> Newsgroups: altnet.general,alt.binaries.news-server-comparison Subject: Re: Should Altopia provide SSL at no additional cost? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:33:40 -0600 Organization: Disorganized Message-ID: <r8fdt3hbi8l3c0olt3af58j3i50821c6d4@4ax.com> References: <1mqbsi.ap2.17.1@news.alt.net> <47D361C0.3090308@no.email.invalid> <1msfo5.el7.19.1@news.alt.net> <47D5F0AC.1090008@no.email.invalid> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@supernews.com Lines: 35