What Phil Hagelberg thinks about cybersecurity

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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1. 8 Apr 2025

   Our readingA library that skips certificate verification by default is unsafe and should not be trusted.

   Their wordsHowever, luasec does not perform any certificate verification by default! This makes its out-of-the-box behavior very unsafe, and I have to recommend against using it for anything.

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