From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: FTP,HTTP → HTTPS in Emacs doc and code
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:58:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc3e58f8-a711-f217-be3f-b811cda3d8cb@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
Inspired by the impending decommissioning of ftp://ftp.gnu.org due to
security concerns, I went through the Emacs master branch and changed
these FTP URLs to https://ftp.gnu.org. While I was at it, I did the
much-bigger task of changing http: to https: for most gnu.org and
fsf.org URLs. (I ran out of energy before doing the MS-Windows files,
and I hope someone else can take up the slack there.)
Although the web pages in question are not secret, plain HTTP is
vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU
servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some
other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example:
Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing
internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626
HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help.
The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take
some care here.
next reply other threads:[~2017-09-13 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-13 23:58 Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-09-14 12:20 ` FTP,HTTP → HTTPS in Emacs doc and code Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-14 14:31 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-14 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-17 3:46 ` Paul Eggert
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