RE: ietf.org unaccessible for Tor users

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 15 March 2016 11:44 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, "cdel@firsthand.net" <cdel@firsthand.net>, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
Subject: RE: ietf.org unaccessible for Tor users
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The MiTM solution people are describing here seems like a very crude solution to this problem.   Perhaps the right way to address this problem is with less susceptible web server software, rather than with a privacy-destroying hack?