Re: new releases of cpan-openbsd-smoker

[email protected] (Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.testers.discuss
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On 20/05/2022 10:50, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
cpan-testers-discuss wrote:
>
> On 20/05/2022 07:44, David Cantrell wrote:
>> On 19/05/2022 13:52, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
>> cpan-testers-discuss wrote:
>>> On 18/05/2022 17:12, Slaven Rezic wrote:
>>>> Actually I think there's no need to use Task::CPAN::Reporter. Just 
>>>> install plain CPAN::Reporter and make sure to use a http URL in 
>>>> your .cpanreporter/config.ini.
>>> This should do it, but it's not ideal since we cannot verify the 
>>> identity of the reports destination.
>>
>> Oh how awful! Someone other than CPANtesters might find out whether 
>> some piece of software works or not!
> And what is your point then?

Unless the point is that you misunderstood the fact that a TLS is not 
only useful to encrypt data between two points but also to guarantee the 
receiver is actually the intended one, not a fake metabase replacement 
that you reached because of DNS poisoning or something like that.

Not sure why someone would do this, but hell, it's a crazy world out there.
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