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Discussion on: MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) Attacks and Prevention

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GrahamTheDev

As always another great and informative piece! ❤ 🦄

What happens if I only support TLS 1.2 - what happens to IE9 and 10 users then, do they simply get no access to the site (I have HSTS preload etc.)

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Teo Selenius

Thanks, glad to hear!

What would happen is that they wouldn’t be able to open your website at all. But do you really care? Even Microsoft doesn’t support IE10 anymore: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle...

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GrahamTheDev

I deal with accessibility, around 3.6% of people who use a screen reader are stuck on IE10 and below due to hardware and software constraints.

So I still support back to IE9 with full or equivalent functionality (depending on the site).

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Teo Selenius

That sucks! I hope things will improve for those 3.6% of people asap :)

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GrahamTheDev

Haha - the webaim screenreader survey should hopefully come out and show it dropped to less than 1% soon, then I too can enjoy the world where I only have to worry about IE11 (which to be fair has 99% of the features you would want to use on a website)!