> The weirder thing here is that it would even be controversial or newsworthy to disable TCP TLS heartbeats, a feature nobody needs or really ever asked for. Wh

> The weirder thing here is that it would even be controversial or newsworthy to disable TCP TLS heartbeats, a feature nobody needs or really ever asked for. Why was it enabled by default in the first place? What sense did that decision ever make? You're essentially asking the same exact question Theo de Raadt is asking, hence his extreme suspicion of IETF.