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The Spy Who Called Me

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When trying the archive.is link posted by ggm, I get the follow error:

    Secure Connection Failed

    An error occurred during a connection to archive.is. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

    Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

and for some reason, I can't reply to his comment...

Archive.is periodically breaks Firefox like that. You can usually still read it in Chromium.

I have a similar situation with the archive.* sites recently as well, on multiple devices on the same network (and various browsers).

On a hunch I tried using a VPN (I'm in the US, and tried just another regional VPN endpoint) and everything works fine. I believe my ISP (AT&T) or its gateway configuration is blocking the site for "security" reasons, which is showing up as an SSL problem. Going to poke at it further, but thought I'd mention it.

Or the Tor browser for some reason, not sure why. It also sometimes does not work on Ungoogled-chromium.

Looks like the archive issue is ISP related, yikes. I had the same error but with VPN it loads fine.

In fact, I can't access archive.* without a VPN. WTF?!

No paywall: https://trimread.org/articles/38947

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