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Setting up a firewall with a small strict set of servers to allow traffic to seems a lot more restrictive and complicated to set up than simply installing Firef
by lucideer 5y ago
Setting up a firewall with a small strict set of servers to allow traffic to seems a lot more restrictive and complicated to set up than simply installing Firefox or some other solution that supports modern TLS.
Either way though, I do personally think it's fairly reasonable for server admins to maintain webservers that target "General-purpose browsing" without also having to include support for odd individual long-tail edge-cases of people running restrictively firewalled instances of outdated insecure OSes.
- selfhoster11 5y agoFirefox is no longer updated on such older OSes, and besides the client application you're using may be abandonware - after all, not only browsers use TLS but also email clients and so on. The only option is to retrofit a newer TLS engine onto a proprietary OS (ha ha), or strip the encryption entirely via a trusted MITM to allow the application to connect at all. > I do personally think it's fairly reasonable for server admins to maintain webservers that target "General-purpose browsing" without also having to include support for odd individual long-tail edge-cases That's a good point