Thread: Changes at Kobo - Kobo WiFi dropped +
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Old 01-28-2019, 10:55 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I just got a couple emails from Kobo. One told me that my Kobo WiFi will not be supported after February 28th and that I won't be able to connect to the Kobo eBookstore using it. (Also no updates, but I don't think there has an update for the Kobo WiFi for a while anyhow.) Not a big a deal on this one.

The other email told me that my Kobo Mini would have a mandatory update (also by February 28th). The line that bothered me in that email was this... "Without this update, your Kobo Mini eReader will no longer be able to exit the setup process after a factory reset is performed." ??? Does this mean that, if we want to sync to Kobo we won't be able to drop back to older versions of the firmware on our Kobo device? I've turned off WiFi for now on the Mini and the Touch. I'll probably let the Touch update (regardless of the results) but first I want to know exactly what is going to happen here.
I would suspect that Kobo is dropping SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 support and very likely TLS 1.1. Quite a few issues with SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 which I've seen referred to as "insecurity profiles" and TLS 1.1 also has several known issues. For web browser support, TLS 1.1 support will be gone around the end of 2019. The PCI folks ordered TLS 1.1 to be gone back in June, 2018.

See Apple, Microsoft, Google Announce Plans to Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 for more on web browser and TLS support.
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