On 10 December 2017 at 18:01, Yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/10/17 09:51, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > >> Hypothetical MITM-bogeyman and "suits not knowing that I use FreeBSD" >> doesn't make SVN over HTTP insecure. >> > > > Read here about Alice and Bob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob > > Hypothetical characters are commonplace in security discussions.
They are not "hypothetical characters," they are invented characters that are used in a threat model. But that's reframing the problem- a hypothetical threat model is very different to a real threat model. -- Igor M. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
