When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”

Post by Handytinge » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 1:19 PM UTC

Yeahsureok wrote: post #123

bayindirh wrote: post #28

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> Lack of HTTPS on the author's site also adds a nice subtle flavour to the blogpost. If you're not doing anything requiring security, you don't need HTTPS, IMHO. > POP should really be considered legacy I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly. Similarly, I'll let the wisdom of "Teh Internetz" to decide…

My ISP injects ads into http sites often. Now just imagine what this corrupt third world government here can do. Of course its "not a problem" if you aren't a vulnerable person who dares go against the grain, but on the whole it is. If your site is not using tls then it's automatically blocked sorry, maybe I'm not your target audience regarding security blogs though :)

If you're security focused, why not GRE tunnel to a vultr or similar VM and exit there? Then your ISP gets no information.

Post by Handytinge » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 1:21 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #98

bayindirh wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Lack of HTTPS on the author's site also adds a nice subtle flavour to the blogpost. If you're not doing anything requiring security, you don't need HTTPS, IMHO. > POP should really be considered legacy I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly. Similarly, I'll let the wisdom of "Teh Internetz" to decide…

> If you're not doing anything requiring security, you don't need HTTPS, IMHO. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. ALL Web traffic should be https (or http/2 or /3). If you connect to a site that uses insecure http, ANY link between you and that site can easily snoop on traffic and even inject different content. You CANNOT be sure that the content you see is what was originally served by the server, and you can certainly exp…

Firmly disagree.

Anyone can use any protocol they wish to, that's the beauty of the internet.

Re: When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”

Re: When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”