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Re:Firefox Pioneer by scrollaway on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:40PM (#17473456)
User's computer => Encrypted => Sent over the internet => Mozilla's public servers => Mozilla intranet gateway => Mozilla non-internet-facing server => Decrypted here

It doesn't say the server is completely offline. It can be connected to through a server which can connect to both that server and the wider internet, but the machine in question cannot.

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Re:Firefox Pioneer by joombaga on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:39PM (#17474480)
Hmm. If I was describing a server behind a bastion host I'd feel dishonest saying it's "not connected to the wider internet".
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Re:Firefox Pioneer by bashinator on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:52PM (#17474587)
I agree. A more honest and accurate way of putting it would be, “not accessible from the wider Internet.” On the other hand, with immutable servers, giving them no route to the wider Internet actually could be possible.
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Re:Firefox Pioneer by mygo on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:16PM (#17474307)
hopefully the server connected to the wider internet can only receive from the wider internet and not send anything to the wider internet. Otherwise it can just be used as a proxy to the server that’s not connected to the internet.
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