linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/arm

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:01:31 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>
Cc:     mchehab+samsung@...nel.org, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
        nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com, robh@...nel.org,
        j.neuschaefer@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/arm

On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 15:09 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:44:08 +0200
> "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de> wrote:
> 
> > Rationale:
> > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
[]
> >  Changes in v2:
> >  Undone all handhelds.org changes and 0 of 0 wearablegroup.org changes.
> 
> I wasn't asking that the changes be undone, I was asking that those links
> simply be removed.  They are actively harmful - much more so than any http:
> links - and shouldn't be there.  *Sigh*.  I guess I'll just do that.

One argument to mark old/invalid links differently somehow is
that the wayback machine at archive.org may still have them.

But when the domain has been transferred to a 3rd party, it is
possibly harmful.

Another option might be to grab any archive.org content and
put it into a Documentation/archived/outdated directory or
the like.

For instance:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090423133742/http://www.handhelds.org/projects/h1940.html

Then gain, this might as well be prehistoric content.