On 8/24/15 3:09 PM, n...@eml.cc wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) wrote:
>> So, if your link is saturated to the point that you can't hold up a VPN 
>> connection reliably, you fall back to an less-secure method of resolution?
> 
> No.

Actually, "yes".  That's pretty much exactly what you are doing.

> 
>> Non-deterministic security, what a concept!
> 
> Didn't take long for you to resort to childish snark to did it?

If "what a concept" is snark, then I'm one of the snarkiest people in
the world.  However, he's pointing out a problem with your configuration.

>> Has it occurred to you, that you're giving the bad guys -- the ones that 
>> want to pry on your query data -- an incentive to also partially DoS your 
>> link, as a way to downgrade your query security?
> 
> No, because I prefer not to waste my time with hypothetical/idle speculation.

Unfortunately, security has a lot to do with figuring out the weak
points in a configuration - that which you call "hypothetical/idle
speculation".  Not good.

>> -1 on this feature request.
> 
> I don't know who you are.  Is that an opinion, or a project decision?

I'm with Kevin on this one.  -1 on this feature request.

AlanC
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of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye.

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