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"Mystery bug"

"Mystery bug"

Posted Mar 28, 2011 9:30 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: "Mystery bug" by PaulWay
Parent article: Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries

Those "dictatorships" (Lebanon sure isn't one. Not sure about Tajikistan. Many of the others don't have that oppressing a regime) are also far too diverse. What has the isolated military rulers of Myanmar (Burma) got to do with the Ayatollahs of Iran?


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"Mystery bug"

Posted Mar 28, 2011 13:27 UTC (Mon) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

You might feel Lebanon is a wonderful place but in the US people see things differently. The US supported the war against Lebanon five years ago.

Maybe someone went through a list of countries where they thought that https should be turned on by default, but accidentally turned it off instead? Hopefully, Microsoft will come clean on this and give a better explanation.

"Mystery bug"

Posted Mar 28, 2011 16:18 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> Maybe someone went through a list of countries where they thought that https should be turned on by default, but accidentally turned it off instead?

That is also a very plausible theory.

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