[Popcon-developers] Bug#880121: Bug#880121: popularity-contest: popcon-upload should be made to POST over https
Bill Allombert
ballombe at debian.org
Thu Jan 4 10:18:02 UTC 2018
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:54:42AM +0100, Mateusz Jończyk wrote:
> Hello,
> It is known that NSA was using error messages from Windows to check which
> software is installed on user computers and which software they can hack[1].
>
> So uploading a list of installed software over plaintext is dangerous.
The list is not in plaintext. It is encrypted with GnuPG before being sent
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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