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Re:Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary c... by MiscIdeaMaker99 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:08AM (#50365738)
I would speculate that it's inertia due to decisions made a decade or two ago, before we decided that everything should run via HTTPS.
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