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michaelt
on Aug 8, 2016
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TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
I've seen quite a bit of criticism of it for mail servers [1] because an attacker can simply block the 'STARTTLS' message and (many) clients will silently accept that.
[1]
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/starttls_considered_harmful
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[1] https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/starttls_considered_harmful