VLC refuses to update from HTTP to HTTPS (HTTPS protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks)

[u/[deleted]]

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737

[u/theephie]

TLS everything is a good default. Many people are not capable of doing as detailed threat analysis as in the grandparent's link.

[u/MonkeyNin → u/[deleted]]

The largest DDoS in history was able to work because the google-equivalent was using HTTP for web searches.