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   mutazilah@gmail.com to All   
   TLS 1.0   
   17 Jun 21 12:53:19   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   There are some servers that are using old software   
   with no easy way to upgrade to a later version of TLS.   
      
   Depending on the exact use case, people may not   
   care about having hackers with the ability to intercept   
   traffic to be able to decrypt their communication.   
      
   When I was using a BBS and occasionally dialing the   
   US (from Australia), it was all unencrypted traffic, so   
   some random telephone company staff had access   
   to my passwords. I don't really care. I was never   
   running Fort Knox.   
      
   TLS 1.0 means that the "glorified telephone people"   
   need to go to some effort to see my passwords, and   
   may lose their jobs if they are caught. Sounds good   
   to me.   
      
   The browser people seem to be in a conspiracy to   
   prevent people from accessing a TLS 1.0 server,   
   even internally within a company.   
      
   Sounds to me like there's a market for a rival browser   
   that enables the use of TLS 1.0, perhaps with a   
   warning.   
      
   Maybe I can start from scratch with a simple browser.   
      
   And offload the OpenSSL code (I assume there is no   
   public domain code available to do this, so this is the   
   best I can do) to my virtual modem.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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