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Re: Torrents for KiCad distribution

 

That sounds like a reasonable plan to me.  Anyone have any objections?

Thank you Adam for offering to pay for this.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 2/24/2017 10:38 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Let's log what it looks like when the next stable comes out, and
> analyze it then.  If we want to push our binaries to Amazon or Google
> or some other CDN, I can almost certainly have W&L pay for it,
> especially if someone else sets it up :).  I know Amazon can seed
> torrents and provide https downloads with just a button click.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> https helps but isn't full proof. I have to deal with a stupid Cisco
>> system called "ScanSafe" that companies use to MITM SSL connections,
>> causing some of my users to generate tons of client error logs from
>> the garbage that stuff injects into my web application pages. It goes
>> as far to rewrite the CSP headers my server generates but they do it
>> wrong so the browser still generates a CSP violation report for me.
>> There's also those antivirus aka scareware programs that now MITM
>> user's SSL connections en masse while being utter security hole filled
>> garbage. And now the Cloudflare SSL leak that is also lol.
>>
>>
>> One problem with torrents is for people on networks where they are
>> either blocked or throttled to death (a problem for American
>> university students at the very least). But that's why if you offer
>> downloads you don't want to be just torrent only.
>>
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