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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 16:39:58 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen I really need to get TLS working for secure file-transfers on sketchydownloads.com. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 16:51:51 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen Debating whether sketchydownloads.com should use #HSTS, and what grade certificate I should use. -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 16:51:20 EDT lnxw48 (Linux Walt) @rozzin With a domain name like that, do you really get many people willing to download? I think people should be just a little paranoid—anything seems a little bit “off” and they should avoid the site completely.
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 17:06:23 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen I think people should be a lot paranoid and not trust -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 17:12:09 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen OMFG itchy trigger-finger--I didn't mean to say people should be *that* paranoid....
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2014 20:39:07 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen I think people should be a lot #paranoid and not base #trust of data-transfers on whether the endpoints appear to have good #DNS names. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2014 00:09:40 EST Joshua Judson Rosen @lnxw48, if you can verify via #crypto the #goodguy #identity of the file-provider and/or file, address doesn't really matter. That's what makes using mirrors of signed packages viable. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2014 00:12:53 EST Joshua Judson Rosen @lnxw48, I actually use sketchydownloads.com for sharing specific files with specific people, in addition to the joke in the front page. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2014 00:15:23 EST Joshua Judson Rosen @lnxw48, I'd much rather people who #trust me #verify that they're actually getting a file _from me_ than from "the right domain".
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2014 01:06:03 EST Joshua Judson Rosen @lnxw48, the big #joke in sketchydownloads.com is: the downloads there are some of the most trustworthy around, but nobody will ever know.
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