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In an Internet-Draft of 2017, Martin Thomson argues that Postel's robustness principle actually leads to a ''lack'' of robustness, including security.<ref>{{cite IETF |title=The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim |last=Thomson |first=Martin |year=2017 |month=October |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-02 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |accessdate=January 15, 2018}}</ref>
 
In a published paper to the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Florentin Rochet and Olivier Pereira show how to exploit Postel's robustness principle inside the Tor routing protocol to compromise the anonymity of onion services and Tor clients.<ref>https://petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue2/popets-2018-0011.pdf</ref>
 
== References ==