This sounds like: "As with a knife one could cut throats, let's start eating only with the fork. Oh, btw, but also the fork could poke, so let's use just the spoon."
Using netcat or ftp to browse the web/intranet/localhost in the 3rd millennium is like eating a steak with a spoon. It's the same logic of leaving open root ssh access with pw=password: nothing can stop a stupid misuse of things. But this is not a good reason to delete ssh. And, just for the records, I bet that 99% of use of lynx is just sysadmin stuff on CLI systems, for the rest (the dangerous horrid scary world...) there are X clients with Firefox. Who's going to warez sites with lynx? Of course we're all a pkg_add away, but that is not the point. Security is a damn good thing. Excesses not. Il 04/mar/2015 20:01 "Giancarlo Razzolini" <grazzol...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > On 04-03-2015 15:48, Jeff St. George wrote: > > Its not in my pay grade to offer a technical opinion on Lynx removal! > > But ,,,,,,WHAT r u folks using instead, considering?????? > Well, for the task the OP mentioned, finding a mirror for pkg_add, you > could do plenty of things to accomplish that. netcating to the OpenBSD > site and running the http get's by hand is one that comes to mind. > curling the mirrors page is another. The fact is, there are no > decent/secure text mode browsers, and given the discussion on tech@ last > year about lynx removal, I believe it should have gone sooner. I don't > think any other text mode browser will make into base in the near > future, unless someone develops a secure one. > > Cheers, > Giancarlo Razzolini On 04-03-2015 15:48, Jeff St. George wrote: > Its not in my pay grade to offer a technical opinion on Lynx removal! > But ,,,,,,WHAT r u folks using instead, considering?????? Well, for the task the OP mentioned, finding a mirror for pkg_add, you could do plenty of things to accomplish that. netcating to the OpenBSD site and running the http get's by hand is one that comes to mind. curling the mirrors page is another. The fact is, there are no decent/secure text mode browsers, and given the discussion on tech@ last year about lynx removal, I believe it should have gone sooner. I don't think any other text mode browser will make into base in the near future, unless someone develops a secure one. Cheers, Giancarlo Razzolini
