On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 17:26 Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 12/31/19 8:10 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: > > Argumentation on the basis of a tu quoque fallacy doesn't really add > > much to the dicussion. Depreciating potentialy dangerous and definitely > > obsolete protocols does not make you a hypocrite. > > > Then how about privilege? > > If someone is living in a less-privileged situation (oppressive regime, > state controlled ISP, extreme poverty, whatever) there's also a good > chance that such people may not able to acquire newer/updated technology > easily, perhaps not even legally at great risk. I will disagree with > anyone's assertion that people in such conditions deserve to be > disenfranchised. I’m not entirely sure an argument based on privilege applies cleanly here. There are freely supported (open source) TLS 1.2 / TLS 1.3 implementations available for download - at no cost - that run on commodity hardware, even as old as i386 cpu chips. Kind regards, Job
