SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: As previously reported on Slashdot, browser makers are considering an accelerated retirement of the older and increasingly vulnerable SHA-1 function. But Facebook and CloudFlare are warning some 37 million users of old browsers and operating systems that don't support SHA-2 will be left without access to encrypted websites. The majority of them are located in some of the "poorest, most repressive, and most war-torn countries in the world," CloudFlare's CEO Matthew Prince said Wednesday in a blog post. Facebook has solved this problem by building a mechanism that allows its certificates to be switched automatically based on the browser used by the visitor.

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I don't see this as a problem, except for....

[Lord Apathy]

Most of the places that they say do not update are home of some of the worse kinds of people. I'm talking about terrorist that use social media and scammers that use the internet to steal from people using social media. By cutting them off from using Facebook at least that would slow them down some.

The only thing that I'm concerned about is agencies that use those services to help refugees and other people that actually need help. They would be hindered by this process. And most of those relief agences are the ones that need it the most and can't afford to upgrade.