Re: HTTP is just fine

Hubert Kario <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 24 November 2015 14:19:13 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > The statement "HTTP is insecure" is wrong and a lie. That's my
> > > problem.
> > 
> > HTTP is insecure and HTTP can't be made secure, it's a fact
> > 
> > existence of extensions like Firesheep prove it
> 
> Nonsense, that is likie saying the existence of a virus/rootkit means
> that Operating systems are insecure.

yes, certain versions of operating systems are known to be insecure. 
Subsequently they got updates released and are no longer vulnerable.

You can't update HTTP to not be insecure. You *can't* fix it.

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Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic

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