SSL not required for setup.exe download

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Lee!

>> It gives you false sense of security. What is worse, everybody is
>> attempting
>> to reassure this false sense on every possible occasion.

> I don't think it's a false sense of security.  https:// isn't "safe"
> but it is _safer_ than http://

Yep. Now, let's recall mcafee, norton, kaspersky, avast… and all those other
"antiviruses" that proxy all TLS traffic through their own root certificate
proxy.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 0:23:19

Sorry for my terrible english...
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