If they intercepted it, then one must assume it was truly plaintext. Because if they were able to get access to the private key for Linksys's server certificate, that would be even bigger news.

I have heard that in some markets the only way to get unlimited service from Comcast (with no monthly cap) is to use their hardware.

And in many Muslim countries, drinking is a big part of the culture notwithstanding the religious dicta (or even legal penalties). Iran loves its wine. Indonesia loves its arak.

Given the reliable correlation between an active social life and longevity, I'm going to mirror your bet.

Leaving early sucks.

However people don't live very long in India. In East Asia, where people do live a long time, you will be offered alcohol routinely.

I'm not saying there's a causal relationship here, but I don't think that example works well.

> Did people in the past make bread without sugar?

They do it in the present.

Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bread, which tastes perfectly pleasant. The little supermarket on my street moves a full shelf of this every day.

The ingredients are:

- Wholewheat flour

- Water

- Wheat gluten

- Yeast

- Malt flour (barley, wheat)

- Rye sourdough powder

- Salt

- Sesame seeds

- Poppy seeds

- Polenta

- Rapeseed oil

I have experienced the bread in the USA and it tastes like a light cake. The sugar makes it cloying to my taste. I guess it's all about what you're used to. But yes, bread without sugar is a very normal thing, and I wouldn't want sugar in mine.

The "Malt flour" in your bread is probably mostly sugar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%2....

Also, it is pretty easy to buy bread not containing sugar in the US.

Malt flour contains 6-20% of sugar according to a German source I've found, so together with its low rank in the ingredient list, it's not a whole lot of sugar.

Why would you ever do that? How do you know it is not compromised?

Carry your phone (many people already do this on a daily or near-daily basis in 2024) and use that in an emergency.

fail2ban has a lot of moving parts, I don't think that's necessarily more secure.

I would trust the OpenSSH developers to do a better job with the much simpler requirements associated with handling it within their own software.

One of my clients has a setup for their clients - some of which connect from arbitrary locations, and others of which need to be able to scripted automated uploads - to connect via sftp to upload files.

Nobody is ever getting in, because they require ed25519 keys, but it is pounded nonstop all day long with brute force attempts. It wastes log space and IDS resources.

This is a case that could benefit from something like the new OpenSSH feature (which seems less hinky than fail2ban).

Another common case would be university students, so long as it's not applied to campus and local ISP IPs.