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I don't think I buy the conspiracy theories being presented on this thread. What, Microsoft was bullied by the government of Myanmar? Even if these countries sa
by jackowayed 16y ago
I don't think I buy the conspiracy theories being presented on this thread. What, Microsoft was bullied by the government of Myanmar? Even if these countries said to Microsoft "turn off HTTPS or we're blocking Hotmail", I think they would have opted for the latter. And Google is still serving GMail over SSL to these countries, right?
My guess: These are all countries that I would guess have pretty high latency from Microsoft's servers. The SSL handshake requires several roundtrips, as I understand it, which means that high latency would hurt performance significantly.
- rbanffy 16y ago> Even if these countries said to Microsoft "turn off HTTPS or we're blocking Hotmail" What if they said "drop HTTPS and, as soon as this turmoil ends, we will modernize our government IT"?
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- marshray 16y ago> which means that high latency would hurt performance significantly Then the users could choose not to use it if they found it annoying. I can't come up with any explanation for this other than a ridiculous level of incompetence or malice.