On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Drak <d...@zikula.org> wrote: > The NSA has the ability, right now to change every download of bitcoin-qt, > on the fly and the only cure is encryption.
Please cut it out with the snake oil pedaling. This is really over the top. You're invoking the NSA as the threat here? Okay. The NSA can trivially compromise an HTTPS download site: even ignoring the CA insecurity, and government run CAs certificate authorities issue CA certs to random governments and corporations for dataloss prevention purposes. Not to mention unparalleled access to exploits. The downloads are protected by something far stronger than SSL already, which might even have a chance against the NSA. Actual signatures of the downloads with offline keys. I'm all pro-SSL and all that, but you are— piece by piece— really convincing me that it produces an entirely false sense of security which is entirely unjustified. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development