[Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?

[Robert Baron]

>> Apple is right about the security of PPTP, but their habit of deleting
things whose security they question is downright annoying.<<

What was really and truly annoying was the lack of notice that if I did the
upgrade being disconnected from my office would be the result.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

> Apple is right about the security of PPTP, but their habit of deleting
> things whose security they question is downright annoying.
>
> Of course, Google just removed the largest certificate authority
> (Symantec) from Chrome and Mozilla, which has put the entire security
> certificate world into a massive dither. It's not just Apple.
>
>
> On 4/5/18 9:40 AM, Robert Baron via LUG wrote:
>
>> One cautionary tale:  I have a high end but somewhat elderly (mid-2010
>> version) iMac desktop with 16GB RAM etc etc and a robust 2015 MacBook Air
>> that were running reasonably well on Yosemite but when I tried to upgrade
>> them to the latest version of Lightroom, Adobe (I believe) said I needed
>> to
>> upgrade my OS to fully implement the features in the upgrade  so I did the
>> upgrading to High Sierra.  All seemed fine until I discovered that High
>> Sierra had deleted the VPN settings connecting me from home or my laptop
>> to
>> my office.
>>
>> So I did some research (Google) and learned "yes, it does that".
>> Apparently Apple doesn't think the PPTP VPN method of connecting is secure
>> any more and won't enable it (Brian, feel free to chime in here, I've
>> exhausted my vocabulary not to mention my knowledge).  It would have been
>> nice if I had known this before considering whether the free upgrade would
>> be worth the price.
>>
>> Since this is well outside my skill set I contacted the tech service that
>> maintains our office servers and network and was told 'hrmmm, Apple may be
>> right and we'll look into it.'  So far they are still looking.
>>
>> Hope This Helps.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
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