From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Check If Your Distro Is Vulnerable To XZ Backdoor
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 01:05:18 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 
>> Unless you need to remote into your computer, sshd isnt /neccesary/.
> 
> I do that all the time. It’s a handy way to mirror things between, say, my 
> main workstation and my laptop, via rsync.
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a clown!

Only a total idiot would use an encrypted link to transfer
data between machines located 20 feet apart (or less) and
both of which are presumably under his control.

Do you see bogey men hiding under your sofa?

Rsync by itself is quite sufficient.

In fact, on my local network, I use GNU inetutils to
perform actions that are all in the clear, i.e. no
encryption.

That's because I do not hallucinate bogey men.

Note that GNU inetutils is no longer offered by most
distros.  You obviously have a lot of paranoiac
brethren.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!