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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)<ref>https://petsymposium.org</ref>, 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 ==