- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:57:10 +0000
- To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
- cc: Ilya Grigorik <ilya@igvita.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <50F06B93.6060309@cs.tcd.ie>, Stephen Farrell writes: >If someone abuses our protocols (which from reports is what >seems to have happened here) there's nothing we can do to >stop them. The reason they "abuses your protocol" is that the protocol has been designed such that it does not support a surprisingly big class of legitimate usecases. Theirs may or may not be legit, but the example clearly illustrates the security failure you so often see, when a protocol does not degrade gracefully. >We can and are working on ways to allow for better detection >of such MITM attacks, but that's different. Yes, fine, cool. But how about allowing for them, for instance where they are mandated by law ? (Pornfilters at schools, inmates communications in high security prisons. Parental control filters in homes.) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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