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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by marcosdumay on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:23AM (#18959574)
This is not the physical world.

Digital security strength is measured on orders of magnitude, and two mechanisms providing security with very different orders of magnitude do not add in any practical sense.

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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by julian-klode on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:02PM (#18970514)
If you've seen today's bug yesterday, or carefully looked at the previous CVEs, you would have seen that https would have significantly reduced the probability of exploitability.
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