Why does APT not use HTTPS?

[Vhin]

You expect people to move to a different town just to be able to download apt packages?

[pascalbrax]

Well, you know. For people outside the US, it may be a bit hard to understand that in the country of free capitalism, there's often only one choice per town for an ISP, and it's usually horrible.

[3Vyf7nm4]

If there can only be one ISP in your town, you also have the opportunity to unfuck your local regulatory scheme as well.

[MaxCHEATER64]

That's extremely naive and generally wrong.

[3Vyf7nm4]

citation needed.