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		user3939382 on Dec 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Shouldn't Use Public CAs for Internal Infrastr... It's not that black and white. Port knocking for instance, is basically extending the password. Is the port configuration "implementation"?

remram on Dec 19, 2022 [–]

You mean "it's not always black and white" and you are right. However the grandparent's case is clear-cut.

user3939382 on Dec 19, 2022 | [–]

They said “it means” i.e. defining a rule. The point of my original comment is that the boundaries are fuzzy, so I wasn’t commenting on specific examples but the concept of the rule.

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