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> they don't do modern encryption standards, and web servers don't like that at all Yes, and come July 1st, many websites will only allow TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 t
by collinmanderson 9y ago
> they don't do modern encryption standards, and web servers don't like that at all
Yes, and come July 1st, many websites will only allow TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 to be PCI compliant, which will knock out a bunch of old clients.
> I bet part of what made Gmaps clients so compatible is because the legacy clients didn't do HTTPS, and Google's servers don't require HTTPS.
That's my hunch too.
- burfog 9y agoThose old clients can have security advantages. For example, my MPC7400 processor is immune to meltdown and spectre. It also isn't supported by a typical javascript JIT, so that wipes out lots of other potential exploits. I'm pretty sure the RAM is old enough to be immune to rowhammer; it is PC133 in slots specified for PC100. The web browser is of course obsolete. Newer ones run slower, take more RAM than the 512 MiB that the system has, expect a GPU, and have lots of dependencies.