Hi, On 8 June 2012 23:32, Mike Mestnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/07/2012 11:07 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> No, it just redirects it into more secure channels, such as tunneling over >> ssh, instead of having to re-implement the encryption& authentication in >> the X layer that ssh already provides. > > It's not up to you to determine IF TCP, or any other protocol for that > matter, is insecure!
It's even less up to you to determine if our input layer is insecure. You're literally violating my freedom. > It should not be the purpose of software developers ds > up on theto police there users, that's part of the reason why FOSS is used > over Microsoft and other proprietary technologies. > > For example the Debian Free Software Guidelines bars licenses that restrict > software use based on endeavour. I don't even know what you're banging on about here. X still supports TCP, we just don't recommend its usage. I would've thought that a security expert like yourself would demand strong authentication and encryption (as offered by SSH) over none at all. Even so, the license (the DFSG is all about licenses) does not restrict anything of the sort, being pretty much the most liberal free software license possible. It's totally irrelevant anyway, as 'endeavour' here is about, e.g. not banning commercial usage of your software. > SSH only supports TCP for client connections, not sure how that ends up > connecting on the server side. I've re-read your mail about four times now and it's made less and less sense every time. I've enabled your moderation bit, so please try to restrict yourself to technical (which this mail was not in any way) mails which make any form of sense in the future. If you want to spout off non-technical gibberish instead, you're welcome to continue emailing me privately about how I'm a communist-hunting government agent. Thanks. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
