Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Questions:
1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
2) Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
3) Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\
Thanks!
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:29 PM, S Mathias smathias1972@yahoo.com wrote:
Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Questions:
But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\
Thanks!
Maybe cause it's not part of CentOS, or even Linux? Just a guess?
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:33:56PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Maybe cause it's not part of CentOS, or even Linux? Just a guess?
What has that to do with the OP's questions? No firefox add-on fits that criteria but yet I suspect everyone is using one or more.
John
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 03:29 -0800, S Mathias wrote:
Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions:
- But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
No clue.
- Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
You'd have better luck asking in the https-everywhere community.
- Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
No clue, but probably yes.
- If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
Most people don't even know what SSL is.
What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\
I think this approach is going nowhere and SSL/TLS encrypting images and icons is [resource] expensive and pointless in 99.44% of cases.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote:
- But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq/ answers this.
- Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
Go for it; the "xpi" file is actually just a Zip archive and the contents should all be readable text.
- Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
I've been using it since it was originally announced' I've never had cause to question its safety. It operates fine and has no conflicts with any other add-on I use. There was a one-time problem with https redirects to wikipedia but that has long since been corrected.
- If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
It's not yet a 1.0 release; this may have something to do with it.
What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\
Everyone should be using it. Spread the word.
John
On 19/01/11 12:41, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote:
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- If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
It's not yet a 1.0 release; this may have something to do with it.
The version number doesn't need to say anything at all. If a software version is 0.7, doesn't mean it's less stable or useful than if the version is 1.0. It all depends on the developer(s) and how they evaluate their work.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
On 01/19/2011 03:29 AM, S Mathias wrote:
Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Questions:
- But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq/
- Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
The place to ask that question would be the mail list for HTTPS everywhere: https://mail1.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere
- Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
Safe in the sense that you can trust the people who wrote it not to be distributing a trojan?
The EFF is behind it. They are about as trusted on this as anyone.
- If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
See #1. ;)
Most of these question would be better addressed to the HTTPS everywhere maillist.
From: S Mathias smathias1972@yahoo.com
Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions:
- But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?:
maybe because they did not choose to put it there...? maybe they have more trust in their own servers.
- Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code?
Would you trust me if I say I did...?
- Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use?
As much as you can trust all the other OS/softwares out there... The EFF and the Tor project are supposed to be good people... but who knows...
- If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?
maybe because many people have no idea what is this https thing... maybe because https is more resource hungry on both sides?
JD
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote:
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?
Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS?
John
On 19/01/11 18:42, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote:
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?
Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS?
You are kidding, right?
I do my accounts on CentOS - does that make this a suitable venue to discuss my tax returns?
The SNR of this list is shocking and encouraging the above doesn't help any. This thread is already 10 posts and contains not one single relevant (to this list) piece of information.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:40:40PM +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
You are kidding, right?
No.
I do my accounts on CentOS - does that make this a suitable venue to discuss my tax returns?
Please conflate more.
The SNR of this list is shocking and encouraging the above doesn't help any. This thread is already 10 posts and contains not one single relevant (to this list) piece of information.
The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions. Was it 100% germane to this list? No, perhaps not. Was it better than the spoon-feeding and 110% off-topic noise that is a normal occurance on this list? Yes.
As the question pertains to, indirectly, on-line privacy and keeping more clear-text data off the wire I have to say, I'd rather see this than the other nonsense here. YMMV.
John
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions. Was it 100% germane to this list? No, perhaps not.
The problem is that none of his questions is ever 100% germane to the various lists to which he posts.
More like 10% or less....
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Mark mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions. Was it 100% germane to this list? No, perhaps not.
The problem is that none of his questions is ever 100% germane to the various lists to which he posts.
More like 10% or less....
Also, in re-reading his questions, none of them has anything to do with CentOS.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Mark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
The OP asked a pretty straight-forward set of questions. Was it 100% germane to this list? No, perhaps not.
The problem is that none of his questions is ever 100% germane to the various lists to which he posts.
and this post is???
////jerry
More like 10% or less.... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote:
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?
Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS?
If that's true, why does he (always) cross-post every single question to the Ubuntu users group (and I hear others, but I don't belong to them)?
This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do anyone's homework for them.
Also, it has been my experience in the last four years of being on this list that most people who are genuinely interested in how something works *on CentOS* include such minimally relevant information as which CentOS they are running and why the question belongs here rather than in, say, a Firefox discussion group.
Feel free to poke around in the archives and see if you can find even one CentOS query from S. Mathias.
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Mark wrote:
This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do anyone's homework for them.
You can generally tell by the subject line on wether its worth some time.
"Is it ok" was another post which I didn't even bother to read.
My over all take and excuse me if I'm veering way off topic is that if you are too lazy to phrase your subject that is specific to the problem, then I am too lazy to help.
Not that I can offer much anyways.
- aurf
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Mark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote:
Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we?
Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this not about CentOS?
If that's true, why does he (always) cross-post every single question to the Ubuntu users group (and I hear others, but I don't belong to them)?
I was not aware of this; thank you for bringing it to my attention.
This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do anyone's homework for them.
I concur with this 100000% I've consistently called people out for mis-use of this mailing list; somehow this one slipped through my notice and I owe the list an apology for that.
Also, it has been my experience in the last four years of being on this list that most people who are genuinely interested in how something works *on CentOS* include such minimally relevant information as which CentOS they are running and why the question belongs here rather than in, say, a Firefox discussion group.
Feel free to poke around in the archives and see if you can find even one CentOS query from S. Mathias.
I have after you pointed out he's a leech (my wording, not yours) above and I was reminded of his past antics here. Again my apologies to you and the list for mentally blocking him out and not putting 2 and 2 together.
John
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
I have after you pointed out he's a leech (my wording, not yours) above and I was reminded of his past antics here. Again my apologies to you and the list for mentally blocking him out and not putting 2 and 2 together.
Who can blame you?
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