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They're used interchangeably pretty much everywhere.

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• peterwwillis 12y ago
  Don't you think that's just stupid, though? First of all they're not the same things at all, secondly nobody actually uses SSL 3.0, and third it's now broken due to POODLE. TLS rocks, SSL sucks. Yet we keep saying SSL when we mean TLS.
  • iancarroll 12y ago
    Do I think its stupid? Yeah. But honestly, it's used so people don't ask "what's that?". I don't think it undermines someone's credibility.
    • peterwwillis 12y ago
      This is a page that purports to dispel misconceptions about the industry's core technology. This would probably be the perfect place to add a section called "I heard SSL is broken because <list of obsolete flaws in SSL>".