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by pilif 3615 days ago
disabling system-wide is pretty much impossible. If OSes added such a toggle, people would start using their own SSL stack and overall security would suffer (because people won't be keeping their SSL stacks up to date)
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This is already a reality. There are at least 5 banking apps I can think of that statically link OpenSSL and use that instead of OS crypto.