Tails::Download::HTTPS hardening: drop support for SSL_NO_VERIFY
This option leaves the door open to some persistent local privilege exploitation. IIRC kurono verified that it was not a problem in practice, but I find it safer not to take any chances, and I prefer not having to constantly reason about whether that remains safe enough. This option was only used by one step of our manual test suite, which: - required a complex local setup that most manual testers don't have (even I haven't had it ready anymore since years) - is now useless not only because our release process publishes the UDFs on the test channel, but also because when a manual tester reaches this point, IUKs are supposed to be available on most mirrors already (and even the RM took a risky shortcut, with #15287, the delay caused by uploading the IUKs goes away, so the chances the IUKs are available is higher).
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