Re: App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP for a local IP
Re: App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP for a local IP
- Subject: Re: App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP for a local IP
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 03:44:09 -0500
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:32 AM, James White <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's not necessarily a vulnerability. The purpose of ATS is to get people thinking about implementing SSL. Potentially Apple could make this mandatory in the future but you'll have plenty of notice.
If they made it mandatory, they would break all Internet apps. Web browsers, e-mail clients, RSS readers, newsreaders, IRC programs, games, anything that needed to make arbitrary non-secure connections would break.
I doubt this will happen.
Charles
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