Where Angels Fear
1 min readJul 8, 2021

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N.B.

It's 2021 and there is long since no excuse for any service or site being delivered via http any more - https is not a new protocol.

Whilst it's true that an https connection is no guarantee that the sire/service is not itself nefarious, it does not inspire me with confidence when I see a site/service or component delivered via http this late in the game — if you're providing the thing yourself, or making use of it as a third-party component of your own site/service at this stage, what else do you have a casual disregard for by way of security?

cosmicwaves.ru is delivered via https itself, but it links out to stream.zeno.fm by way of http ... which is concerning: zeno.fm may itself be fine but you've no way of knowing if the data hasn't been intercepted before it reaches you — and browsers are the single largest attack vector there is.

It's probably fine ... probably ... but be wary.

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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