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		throw0101a on Sept 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tor Browser 10 Well that's fine, but banks and Gmail (and even Wix sites) will advertise TLS 1.2+ and be just dandy as the web browser will choose the latest and greatest. But what harm does allowing 1.0 if you want to read a static HTML web page from 2001 about the Cowboy Bebop anime series?

schoen on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

The idea is that the browser doesn't know whether you're accessing the static HTML page or a bank that failed to upgrade.

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