Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:01 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 19/10/2022 09:48, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Sure but as mentioned it's public data, and the modification, and I
> > covered that in my reply, would be picked up by the other mechanisms.
>
> They can collect a lot of sensitive information: your IP, Fedora
> version, packages version, etc. This can help with recon for attackers.
>

HTTPS does not help with that. It's just a transport protocol.

> > There isn't actually that many mirrors left do we
> > really want to reduce the number more for end users for no actual
> > improvement in security?
>
> It will improve privacy at least.
>

Not in any meaningful way, and in most cases HTTPS makes mirrors slower too.

> > Ultimately bandwidth is expensive in a lot of
> > parts of the world for commercial entities to provide, that's why
> > there's mirrors.
>
> Fedora COPR has moved to Amazon CDN. Maybe Fedora's main mirror can
> switch to a CDN too?
>

We don't have a "main mirror" for that to work.



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