Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Mon Jul 11 10:20:00 EDT 2016


You (i.e. a developer who has one of these apps that scrapes from 
non-hhtp sites) could always provide a "relay" site that took https 
connections, made the request to the http site and then forwarded the 
end result.

-- Alex.

On 11/07/2016 15:13, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 7/11/2016 9:42 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
>> If taken to court, I expect Apple would show evidence of the above and
>> argue that they are taking much-needed steps to ensure users' security
>> and safety, by making sure that the data the user receives is the same
>> as the data that was sent, and that sensitive data cannot be sent over
>> easily-intercepted links.
> If taken to court, I'd expect Apple to just out spend anyone else.
> Sadly, in the US, money can buy you the verdict you want!
>
> And yes, you are completely right. My "1st amendment" comment has no
> grounds and was just venting frustration at Apple taking away consumer
> choice - although I suppose the consumer still has a choice to switch to
> Android (until Google does the same dumb thing).
>
> I know a lot of people who have tiny webs sites - for home businesses,
> for hobby interests, for their own blogs among friends, and on and on.
> There folks are never going to update these web sites to HTTPS. In most
> cases, some one else set up the web sites for them and is no longer
> available and they know nothing about managing them. Unfortunately, they
> will simply notice that fewer people visit their sites OR perhaps
> discover they can no longer see their site from their own iPhone and
> have no idea why - even after reading any error messages - and just
> shrug it off as "tech stuff not working again".
>
> Not giving users a choice between HTTP and HTTPS will reduce user access
> to content regardless of what possible benefits the security may bring.
>
>
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