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		Inityx 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers > But the plugin actually reaches out to its backend servers — dict.youdao.com and dict.cn — over unsecured HTTP. What year is it?

jeltz 5 months ago [–]

I assume it must be 2015 at most because my first job in 2008 ran everything, including images, on HTTPS. But I can imagine some last holdpouts 7 years after that.

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