On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote: > The safer part of my speculation is specifically based on being less code > to maintain overall. More resources devoted to a smaller code base.
Best of all is completly remove any code: no code -- no hole. > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM Igor Mozolevsky <mozolev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote: > > > > Lolz, right? :- > > > > > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove > > all > > > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and > > safer. > > > > Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any > > empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your speculation? > > > > > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp. > > > > > > How does the saying go, "if you think that encryption is the solution to > > your problem then you don't understand neither encryption nor your > > problem"? I would hazard a guess that over 95% of encrypted traffic needn't > > be encrypted at all, but no commercial interest developed "integrity over > > http" so we all have to suffer "encryption under http" instead. > > > > > > -- > > > > Igor M. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
