From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, kurt@roeckx.be, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:52:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3xsuomm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141028111903.199d44ab@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:19:03 -0400")
[ OK, last message in this offtopic thread. ]
>> > I consider contributions to security technology and policy[1]
>> > defense of freedom.
>> Note that in the context of "secure"boot, digital restrictions
>> management, and other tivo-ized systems, that same technology is
>> clearly being used against freedom.
> There's nothing wrong with things like secure boot systems provided
> they're fully under the control of the user.
In theory, maybe I could agree. But so far I haven't seen any use of
secure-boot that helps the user's freedom rather than harms it.
> Yes, the same technology has multiple uses, both pro and anti freedom,
> but that's true of all sorts of things, including computers in general.
My point exactly.
> (I'll point out that given that the NSA "Ant Catalog" includes a bunch
> of BIOS-inserted malware and other load-time infection
> techniques. Secure booting is actually a priority for ordinary people.
How would secure-booting protect the user against BIOS-inserted malware?
A Free BIOS would seem to be much more useful/effective for that purpose.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-10-22 20:02 ` Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:05 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-23 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-23 15:57 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24 13:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-02-20 15:28 ` Kurt Roeckx
2016-02-21 2:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-02-22 20:38 ` Bug#766397: " Antoine Beaupre
2017-04-16 17:28 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-22 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 21:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 16:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-23 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-23 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 7:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-27 19:42 ` Filipp Gunbin
2014-10-23 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-23 18:00 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:37 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:43 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 18:57 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 18:59 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 19:11 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-23 19:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:50 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-23 20:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 21:05 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24 2:56 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 21:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24 3:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 20:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-24 21:14 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-24 21:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-25 0:36 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26 8:15 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26 11:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-26 12:45 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-26 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-26 7:38 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-24 21:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-25 0:42 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-27 17:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-27 19:39 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 7:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 7:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-28 8:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-28 15:19 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 15:33 ` Florian Weimer
2014-10-28 16:20 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-28 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-28 17:11 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 3:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-28 15:10 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 3:06 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-29 7:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 11:19 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-23 19:03 ` Kurt Roeckx
2014-10-24 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-25 7:31 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-25 14:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-10-25 15:49 ` removing SSLv3 support by default from the Emacs GnuTLS integration (was: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.) Ted Zlatanov
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