In one of the strangest stories of the year, the COVID-19 virus has halted plans by major browsers to drop support for the ageing and insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols. Mozilla Firefox and Googles Chrome developers sneaked out the move in recent days with only Microsoft Edge team bothering to formally announce the sudden reprieve on Tuesday. While a temporary delay, it’s still an unexpected retreat for an industry which had showed unity in collectively deciding to banish. the lesser used. used protocols by web browsers to connect securely to websites.”]